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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
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cm0002 suppo.fi cm0002@suppo.fi
Joined: 2025-11-10
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Despite being a relatively recent build, the Flock camera was running Android 8.1. This version of Android was released in 2017, and officially stopped getting support from Google in 2021 (see the Android end-of-life page for more info). And despite Google publishing security fixes for Android 8.1 until 2021, the Android patch level is 2018-06-05. This camera is missing Android security updates for the last eight years.

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RobotsLeftHand lemmy.world treesapx@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-26
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Guys, Im starting to think these Flock thingies are a bunch of hooey.

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Pope-King Joe lemmy.world popekingjoe@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Android 8.1. That is just. Wow.

And hardcoded API keys? Bro seriously? This is a big "security" company and they're making baby's first programming mistake?

I have no words.

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schmorp slrpnk.net schmorpel@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-07-12
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Android 8.1. That is just. Wow. And hardcoded API keys? Bro seriously? This is a big "security" company and they're making baby's first programming mistake? I have no words.

I'm not a dev by far but I read 'hardcoded credentials', was going to scroll on as I do, stopped, made a weird face and then laughed out loud for quite a while. Security, yeah. It's at same time strange, really funny and very sad that words have lost all meaning. We're living in full doublespeak times.

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