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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials micahflee.com
Flock ALPR cameras run on severely outdated Android 8.1 and Linux 3.18, missing years of security patches. Analysis of leaked firmware revealed hard-coded API keys and plaintext Auth0 credentials, allowing access to Flock's backend for any camera given its MAC address.
Lobstersmicahflee.comMicah Lee4d6 minHN496 lobste.rs110
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Canonical announces Zephyr 26.04 LTS canonical.com
Canonical announced Zephyr 26.04 LTS, an enterprise‑grade RTOS with up to 15 years of security updates and built‑in OTA support via Golioth. It’s delivered through Ubuntu Pro for Devices and includes a containerized development environment to simplify MCU firmware builds.
Lobsterscanonical.comCanonical Ltd15h4 minreleaselobste.rs14
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How Meshtastic Metrics Exporter Turned Eight Prometheus Queries Into One with Tiger Data tigerdata.com
A Python exporter reads Meshtastic mesh telemetry from MQTT and writes it directly into a TimescaleDB‑enabled PostgreSQL instance, replacing a Prometheus setup that hit ~0.5 M series for 10 k nodes. The single database lets Grafana dashboards join node metadata with eight time‑series tables in one query, eliminates scrape‑budget limits, and uses native retention/compression (14‑day compression, 3…
Timescaletigerdata.comAndrew Stebbins6d6 min

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