CVE-2025-47824

CVE-2025-47824 concerns Flock Safety LPR devices with firmware up to 2.2, where the underlying issue is cleartext storage of code. This is documented across multiple sources (NVD/Red Hat/CERT style advisories and PT-2025-27042). The root cause is not fully elaborated beyond the existence of clear...

CVE-2025-47823

Flock Safety LPR License Plate Reader devices with firmware through 2.2 have a hardcoded password for a system...

CVE-2025-47822

Flock Safety LPR devices running firmware up to 2.2 expose an on-chip debug interface with improper access control. This affects the LPR module (license plate reader) and can impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability as indicated by CVSS bases (high impact across metrics). The connected...

Surveillance by the US Postal Service

This is not about mass surveillance of mail, this is about the sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves: To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company,...

Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement

Motherboard got its hands on Palantir's Gotham user's manual, which is used by the police to get information on people: The Palantir user guide shows that police can start with almost no information about a person of interest and instantly know extremely intimate details about their lives. The...