骇客组织 stegan0gram 拆解并逆向工程了一台安装在道路上方的 Flock Safety 监控镜头，成功复制内部资料并提取未加密分区中的金钥，解锁了数千部车辆侦测影片。外泄资料随后交由媒体 404 Media 与 WIRED 进行联合调查分析，这项行动突破了 Flock 所宣称的装置端加密保护，揭开其内部运作的技术细节。

技术分析显示，该镜头运行 Android 系统并搭载约 20 款 Flock 应用程式，不仅能追踪车辆、车牌与自行车，其电脑视觉模型还明确具备侦测行人的功能。在记录的 21 天内，单一镜头便拍摄约 5 万辆车并生成逾 160 万张照片；影像辨识系统偶尔会将保险杆贴纸或图样误认为车牌，但未发现启用人脸辨识的痕迹。

这项逆向工程凸显了大众对 Flock 全国监控网路与隐私侵犯的强烈反弹，该网路此前曾引发跨州追踪堕胎女性与协助移民执法的争议。尽管 Flock 官方指责拆除与窜改设备属于违法行为，但日志中同时暴露了装置频繁出现储存空间不足与重开机的软体缺陷，进一步引发了全美各地对大规模车牌辨识系统的广泛辩论。

A hacker group called stegan0gram physically dismantled and reverse engineered a roadway-mounted Flock Safety camera, successfully copying its internal storage and recovering an encryption key from an unencrypted partition to unlock thousands of vehicle detection videos. The extracted files were shared with 404 Media and WIRED for a joint investigation, piercing Flock's claims of on-device encryption and revealing the precise mechanics of its surveillance technology.

Technical analysis revealed that the device runs an Android operating system with around 20 proprietary Flock apps, explicitly detecting pedestrians alongside vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. Across roughly 21 days of recovered logs, the single camera photographed about 50,200 vehicles and generated 1.6 million images, occasionally mistaking bumper stickers or patches for license plates while showing no active evidence of facial recognition deployment.

This breach underscores intensifying public pushback against Flock's nationwide surveillance network, which has drawn fierce scrutiny over controversial police searches involving out-of-state abortion investigations and federal immigration enforcement. While Flock condemned the tampering as illegal, the recovered logs also exposed significant device-level instability, including tens of thousands of storage-exhaustion crashes, fueling ongoing national debates over ubiquitous surveillance.