Aakash GuptaLead source
A Minnesota town told the company running its license plate cameras to stop all work. Within two weeks, one of those cameras was back on its pole and running again. This has now happened in five towns across four states. And the explanation is a piece of software doing exactly what it was built to do. Flock's cameras get stolen and wrecked all the time. Thieves took all eight cameras in Winona, Minnesota this summer. Duluth police logged six separate incidents of cameras stolen or vandalized. So Flock built its network to fix itself. If a camera goes dark, the system figures something broke and sends out a work order to get it back up. That makes total sense for a company selling coverage to police departments, because nobody pays for a camera that's off. Here's the problem. When a city…Read original on X