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		givemeethekeys 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled camera... Why sue? Why not impound and fine like they would illegally parked vehicles?

ocdtrekkie 3 months ago [–]

The cameras are not meaningfully worth a whole lot of money.

hiatus 3 months ago | | [–]

And neither is a beater but they still get impounded.

MSFT_Edging 3 months ago | | | [–]

They'd be worth something to a handful of reasonably competent hackers. There's no way these things are actually secure, they're IOT devices after all.

KaiserPro 3 months ago | | [–]

Indeed, but the data they get from them is.

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