Sep 26, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 19 segments
Who thought putting Flock surveillance cameras to monitor traffic coming into the parking lots at the Pentagon was a good idea? We understand why the War Department would want to know who’s trying to…
Sharon GilbertHost
One is, and I'm going to kick this off, I know we had said possibly we'd do Zielinski, but I want to start with flock cameras online.
You probably have heard of the flock of cameras that become kind of a big story this summer, even though they've been around for a little while.
These are the AI-powered license plate readers that are being placed on poles all over the country.
There have been multiple stories about how the information has been misused by city employees, police officers, and so on, too.
hound you know ex-spouses or stalk ex-girlfriends or whatever but take this to another level with the pentagon now surrounding itself with flock cameras to track the movement of vehicles into and out of the department of defense parking lot at the pentagon This is a problem because it is not...
You see, there are at least nine, according to a report from Responsible Statecraft, at least nine automated license plate readers monitoring the traffic lanes used by Pentagon employees and other drivers entering the parking lot.
Now, you can understand why the Pentagon would want to know which vehicles are coming and going because some of them may not have any business being there.
Mm-hmm.
But if the flock system is as vulnerable to security breaches, yes, as some of its critics claim, this could really be a problem.
When Israel and the United States launched its, was it Operation Roaring Lion for Israel?
Anyway, the reason they were able to eliminate Ayatollah Khamenei and many of his high-ranking IRGC leaders on day one of the conflict was because they had hacked the traffic cameras on traffic light poles.
polls in tehran now imagine somebody doing that with the flock system around the pentagon okay we know the department of uh war of the secretary of war is there along with the vice president and whoever else now's the time to launch the drones this is really disturbing um
Well, let me just, I'm sitting here doing a little reading on the company behind Flock Cameras.
It is Flock Group Incorporated, and it is an American-owned company founded by Garrett Langley, Matt Fury, and Paige Todd, but underwritten by Peter Thiel.
Now, recently, and this is a license plate reader, essentially, but they also have capability, this company does, for gunfire detection systems.
Now, I don't know if they're part of that particular install, when you put in flawed cameras or not, but there has been an agreement between Amazon Ring...
One is, and I'm going to kick this off, I know we had said possibly we'd do Zielinski, but I want to start with flock cameras online.
You probably have heard of the flock of cameras that become kind of a big story this summer, even though they've been around for a little while.
These are the AI-powered license plate readers that are being placed on poles all over the country.
There have been multiple stories about how the information has been misused by city employees, police officers, and so on, too.
hound you know ex-spouses or stalk ex-girlfriends or whatever but take this to another level with the pentagon now surrounding itself with flock cameras to track the movement of vehicles into and out of the department of defense parking lot at the pentagon This is a problem because it is not...
You see, there are at least nine, according to a report from Responsible Statecraft, at least nine automated license plate readers monitoring the traffic lanes used by Pentagon employees and other drivers entering the parking lot.
Now, you can understand why the Pentagon would want to know which vehicles are coming and going because some of them may not have any business being there.
Mm-hmm.
But if the flock system is as vulnerable to security breaches, yes, as some of its critics claim, this could really be a problem.
When Israel and the United States launched its, was it Operation Roaring Lion for Israel?
Anyway, the reason they were able to eliminate Ayatollah Khamenei and many of his high-ranking IRGC leaders on day one of the conflict was because they had hacked the traffic cameras on traffic light poles.
polls in tehran now imagine somebody doing that with the flock system around the pentagon okay we know the department of uh war of the secretary of war is there along with the vice president and whoever else now's the time to launch the drones this is really disturbing um
Well, let me just, I'm sitting here doing a little reading on the company behind Flock Cameras.
It is Flock Group Incorporated, and it is an American-owned company founded by Garrett Langley, Matt Fury, and Paige Todd, but underwritten by Peter Thiel.
Now, recently, and this is a license plate reader, essentially, but they also have capability, this company does, for gunfire detection systems.
Now, I don't know if they're part of that particular install, when you put in flawed cameras or not, but there has been an agreement between Amazon Ring...
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