Not Secure Or Safe

Our Take

Wyo Support's podcast format — pulling together clips and commentary — is exactly the kind of grassroots scrutiny this technology needs. The title alone, "Not Secure Or Safe," cuts to the heart of the Flock debate: these aren't just traffic cameras, they're networked surveillance nodes feeding a searchable database of where you drove, when, and how often. Most people have no idea their local police department signed a contract giving a private company this kind of access to their movements.

We don't have the full transcript, but the framing tracks with what we've heard again and again from security researchers and privacy advocates: Flock's system has had real vulnerabilities, and "safe" is doing a lot of marketing work for a product that was never independently audited by the communities forced to live under it. When a camera network can be hacked, misused by an employee, or quietly expanded without public debate, the question isn't whether it catches a few bad guys — it's who else gets caught in the net and what happens to that data afterward.

Credit to Wyo Support for keeping this conversation going outside the usual tech-press bubble. If you want to see whether one of these cameras is already clocking your plate, check our map, and if you're ready to push back on a local deployment, our take-action guide has the steps to start that fight in your own town.