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Flock’s Lead Investor Also Backs a Company That Can Alter Security Footage
Gadget Review ^ | 08 05 2026 | Alex Barrientos

Posted on 08/14/2026 6:00:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Flock Safety raised $960M total, reaching a $7.5B valuation backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund.

Toka reportedly lets clients hack cameras, alter footage, and erase evidence without leaving forensic traces.

Researchers demonstrated live camera-feed hijacking at Black Hat, proving footage tampering is technically achievable today.

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KEYWORDS: flockcameras; securityfootage; surveillance

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1 posted on 08/14/2026 6:00:39 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Wow. That’s flocked up!


2 posted on 08/14/2026 6:02:43 AM PDT by SGCOS (Biden..couldn't find his own ass using a GPS and a flashlight. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Flock Safety Reply: This is not a problem. We answer to our shareholders and all money is green.


3 posted on 08/14/2026 6:03:57 AM PDT by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: yesthatjallen
It's hilarious watching local news organizations reporting breathlessly and sympathetically about citizen concerns over these cameras - illegal tracking, selling the data, pervert cop stalking women, arrests based on false identification, but then a couple of weeks later they get the memo and fall right into line with the deep state talking points. "Keeping communities safe" blah, blah, blah.

The media is being bought off in real time. Politicians, too!

4 posted on 08/14/2026 6:24:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Most people do not want this level of surveillance. People will be injured or killed as a result of flock cameras. That includes cops and city council/county commissioners. These things will never be justified.


5 posted on 08/14/2026 6:24:56 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: yesthatjallen

“I am perpetual I keep the country clean.”


6 posted on 08/14/2026 6:27:10 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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7 posted on 08/14/2026 6:41:33 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Sirius Lee

Public officials are being blackmailed by Flock.

They know everything they’ve ever done.


8 posted on 08/14/2026 6:51:01 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Gunslingr3

That is a really good job given that they were working with actual film. That sort of work requires inter-negative masks and image sandwiches at the enlarger. Difficult work.


9 posted on 08/14/2026 7:39:27 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: yesthatjallen

We promise.


10 posted on 08/14/2026 7:48:43 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Thank you, Dr. Fauci!" /s)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I got a behind the scenes tour of our medium sized cities Emergency Ops Center over 10 years ago. Even then they had similar cams at all the major intersections. They showed me live how they could zoom right in each individual car, take very clear video of the car interior and the person - and what the person was doing.

Worst of all - the images were so clear they could read the persons lips and know what they were saying! This was done by matching the lips movement to software that could actually read lips, seriously.

PLUS - the cams had a remote audio detection technology that could actually HEAR what was going on inside the vehicle. Not stellar at the time, but enough they used that audio to match against the lip reading software.

If that was ten years ago, I imagine they can take a freaking DNA sample remotely by now.


11 posted on 08/14/2026 7:59:31 AM PDT by Battlestar (1776 - Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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To: yesthatjallen

Researchers demonstrated live camera-feed hijacking at Black Hat, proving footage tampering is technically achievable today.


Wouldn’t this be presented in all court cases to discount this evidence? At least it would in the movies.............


12 posted on 08/14/2026 8:04:59 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: yesthatjallen

Own the mechanism for surveillance and own the mechanisms to fabricate or remove the surveillance evidence, sweet.


13 posted on 08/14/2026 9:13:49 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: GingisK

“... they were working with actual film.”

Actual film? I doubt that ... Flock recordings are digital. Anything digitally recorded can be altered.

Which is one reason I oppose voting over the I-net.


14 posted on 08/14/2026 9:22:22 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Election 2020 was stolen by mail-in voting. Mail-in voting and RCV counting should be abolished.)
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Stalin’s Soviet Union didn’t have digital media...


15 posted on 08/14/2026 10:11:06 AM PDT by null and void (Trump isn't a pussycat, but he does have nine lives!)
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To: ByteMercenary

I was referring to those photos of Stalin.


16 posted on 08/14/2026 10:41:58 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: yesthatjallen

One day say some democrats will use the fake footage and accuse people of crimes they did not commit.


17 posted on 08/14/2026 12:57:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: SGCOS
Wow. That’s flocked up!

It's also a primary plot device in the (fictional?) movie "The Running Man".

18 posted on 08/14/2026 12:59:03 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: GingisK; Gunslingr3

Eons ago (1980s) I learned to do that kind of stuff in the darkroom ... I was never that good at it, though. I suspect the Soviets used airbrushing as well as burning and dodging masks.


19 posted on 08/14/2026 1:05:15 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Yeah, darkroom affects are such a pain. Once I got used to a digital camera and Photoshop my darkroom was given a new home. I had a lot of gear centered around a B-22XL enlarger. I used to purchase film in 100’ spools and then load the camera spools myself. Tri-X, Plus-X, Panatomic-X mostly. Color in the darkroom was a nightmare.


20 posted on 08/14/2026 4:17:22 PM PDT by GingisK
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