Vigilante Justice
Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole
“Any good prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.”
https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillance-felony-legal?fbclid=IwdGRjcAT2G9RjbGNrBPYbt3Bkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeOIsu4oXu035OXSh3sB2mWJTqBKGD6cf63bN0LRinwiYL6ziLDnfpNgNXE3Q_aem_lVTPZAg6P8vrFDBMxxNCiQ

If this isn’t an indictment on America’s hatred of Flock cameras, we don’t know what is.

On Wednesday, a grand jury in Ohio refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR).

In June, police in the Cincinnati suburb of Union Township arrested Cody Morelock, accusing him of removing bolts on the ALPR pole, toppling it over, and ultimately destroying the surveillance camera and its solar panel.

The prosecution’s case seemed iron-clad: according to Cincinnati’s Local12, police identified Morelock using surveillance footage from multiple nearby cameras, combined with info gleamed from a credit card and a customer rewards account. Despite the evidence against him, the jury declined to indict Morelock, resulting in all charges being dropped.

That said, the outcome in this case is likely more the result of Flock’s horrible reputation than any error by the prosecution. Flock’s ALPRs are exceedingly unpopular across every swath of the political spectrum, and nearly every new case of vandalism comes with a wave of support on social media for the accused. With the charges against Morelock dropped, it seems that phenomenon isn’t just limited to viral moments, but is increasingly spilling out into the real world.

Systems controlling the U.S. water supply are under active attack.

A new warning by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says foreign threat actors are probing Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers used in drinking-water plants, wastewater systems, energy facilities and industrial sites across the United States.

PLCs are specialized computers that control physical equipment, including pumps, valves, motors and treatment processes.

Unlike a conventional data breach, gaining access to one of these computers could affect machinery in the physical world.

According to the warning, attackers are scanning for controllers that are exposed to the internet, running outdated software or configured without adequate protection.

The campaign reportedly uses AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools, potentially making it faster and cheaper to identify vulnerable systems.

There is an important distinction.

Officials have not announced that America’s drinking water has been contaminated or that the national water supply has been successfully breached.

The CISA warning describes active reconnaissance and capability development – the stage in which attackers identify potential targets and prepare ways to exploit them.

If attackers gained control of a vulnerable device, they could potentially interrupt treatment processes, disable equipment, create unsafe operating conditions or disrupt service. The same controllers are also used in power, chemical and other industrial facilities.

Infrastructure operators are being urged to install available security updates, remove unnecessary internet exposure and place industrial equipment behind properly configured firewalls.

Control systems should also be separated from ordinary business networks, reducing the chance that a breach of office computers could spread to operational machinery.

For the public, no special action is indicated unless a local utility or emergency agency issues instructions.

Learn more:
“Major warning issued over potential attacks on U.S. water supply.” Newsweek

Cull The Flock
Flock’s Network Is Losing Value to Cops as More and More of Its Cameras Go Offline
More poles going down prevents new poles from going up.
https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-network-losing-value-police-alpr-wisconsin?fbclid=IwdGRjcAT0NKNjbGNrBPQ0iHBkb2YFZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMzUwNjg1NTMxNzI4AAEeob8SsMC6C1iehnxcuMiTOIB77N8Ib8U5aOGcbf2P8-q9wt9l69kymB9C4-4_aem_0F23c4Q6DmQa6eZnjQAawA

As vandalism against its license plate-reading cameras and backlash against civic leaders who embrace them grows, Flock Safety is losing its surveillance coverage at a breakneck pace.

That isn’t just bad news for the company’s bottom line. It also means that its customers in law enforcement are able to draw on less and less data — making the company’s network a less attractive line item for local governments across the country.

Advania tuo yritysten kielimallien eteen tarkastuskerroksen, joka analysoi käyttäjän syötteen ja käsiteltävän datan ennen niiden lähettämistä tekoälymallille. – Ilman tällaista ratkaisua tekoäly on liiketoimintariski, Advania Finlandin toimitusjohtaja Janne Ahonen sanoo.

Uusi Advania ALT -alusta tunnistaa käyttäjän syötteestä ja käsiteltävästä datasta esimerkiksi henkilötietoja, taloustietoja, liikesalaisuuksia ja muuta arkaluonteista sisältöä. Lisäksi se arvioi sisällön merkitystä ja kontekstia.

Analyysin perusteella sisältö luokitellaan organisaation ennalta määrittelemien tietoturva- ja hallintapolitiikkojen mukaisesti. Näin esimerkiksi liikesalaisuuksia sisältävä pyyntö voidaan estää päätymästä julkiseen kielimallipalveluun ja ohjata ympäristöön, jossa kyseisen datan käsittely on sallittu.

– Alustan tarkoituksena on varmistaa, että organisaation määrittelemien luottamuksellisuus- ja tietosuojavaatimusten vastainen data ei päädy sellaisiin malleihin tai palveluihin, joita sille ei ole sallittu käyttää, Ahonen kertoo.