Hackers physically removed a Flock license plate reader camera and recovered 27,321 video clips and 1.6 million images by exploiting an unencrypted storage partition containing an encryption key on the device itself. The investigation revealed the camera logged extensive vehicle and person detection data, though most sensitive storage remained encrypted, and Flock disputed the findings while reiterating that physical tampering is illegal.
A solar-powered vehicle counter built on Raspberry Pi 5 uses YOLOv8 machine vision and a USB webcam to detect and count vehicles by direction in real time, with periodic uploads to a cloud MySQL database. The system employs Kalman filtering and IoU matching to track individual vehicles across frames and classify their direction of travel without interfering with road infrastructure.