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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Apologies for not getting the previous one up - my old laptop died)

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    Flock camera is image available on ddossecrets.

    https://ddosecrets.org/article/flock-alpr-camera

    Very brief observations from micahflee:

    https://bsky.app/profile/micahflee.com/post/3mvo2bss3sk2v

    This Flock camera is running obsolete, end-of-life software.

    • It’s on Android 8.1, released in 2017, support ended in 2021
    • It’s on Android patch level 2018-06-5
    • It’s running Linux 3.18, released in 2017

    This shit is like 8 or 9 years old, and full of vulnerabilities.

    Flock was founded in 2017, apparently made their golden camera image within 12-18 months or so and never updated it since. They might not even have the ability to fix it in-house anymore, even assuming it wasn’t a one-off contractor job in the first place. I know the embedded development is a shit show, but somehow it never ceases to disappoint me how lazy and incompetent the entire goddamn industry is.

    Fucking android?

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      HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD

      What is that? That’s a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock’s production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

      Mein Gott.