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Spooky23last Friday at 11:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character.

One has to wonder whether these passwords were that way purposefully to avoid accountability for privileged partners. Most of these systems are deployed with grant money that it comes from the department of justice.


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lcnPylGDnU4H9OFyesterday at 1:50 AM

> Their CEO comes off as a real self-righteous character.

https://www.ci.staunton.va.us/home/showpublisheddocument/134... (PDF)

My favorite part:

> [Activists are] also trying to turn a public records process into a weapon against you and against us.

As if people are not simply asking for something to which they are entitled through legislation.

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nxobjectyesterday at 12:30 AM

“Wow, we totally didn’t know we had everything accessible on Shodan! We totally hope that no federal entities exploited this (fake tears), but I guess we can’t tell anyway! It’s not as if they found out about it from us :(”

therobots927last Friday at 11:17 PM

He’s clearly mimicking Alex Karp. And there’s no doubt in my mind that this is one of many backdoors built into Flock.

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