--- title: Schneier on Security | daily.dev description: St. Lucie County, Florida found a dozen Flock surveillance cameras with no identifiable owner and no county approval. The situation echoes a decade-old mystery... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-wubyfxan6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Schneier on Security | daily.dev og:description: St. Lucie County, Florida found a dozen Flock surveillance cameras with no identifiable owner and no county approval. The situation echoes a decade-old mystery... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-wubyfxan6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/wUBYFxAN6.png og:image:alt: Schneier on Security og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Schneier on Security **[Schneier on Security](https://daily.dev/sources/schneier)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary St. Lucie County, Florida found a dozen Flock surveillance cameras with no identifiable owner and no county approval. The situation echoes a decade-old mystery involving unidentified StingRay cell-site simulators detected in Washington, DC. The author speculates the Flock cameras are likely an unapproved local government deployment rather than a foreign intelligence operation, noting that hacking an existing surveillance network (as Israel reportedly did with Tehran's traffic cameras) would be more efficient for a foreign actor than installing new hardware. The broader point: normalizing surveillance infrastructure means both allies and adversaries can exploit it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Flock surveillance cameras are spreading across the US](https://daily.dev/posts/flock-surveillance-cameras-are-spreading-across-the-us-9dx0pt2ac) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Americans Are Smashing Flock Cameras. The Surveillance State Has a Sabotage Problem.](https://daily.dev/posts/americans-are-smashing-flock-cameras-the-surveillance-state-has-a-sabotage-problem--ddw9drate) · Hacker News · 6 upvotes · 1 comments - [Lawmakers say stolen police logins are exposing Flock surveillance cameras to hackers](https://daily.dev/posts/lawmakers-say-stolen-police-logins-are-exposing-flock-surveillance-cameras-to-hackers-b68p34k2e) · TechCrunch · 2 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-wubyfxan6) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Schneier on Security","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-wubyfxan6","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/schneier-on-security-wubyfxan6"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T14:53:26.575Z","dateModified":"2026-10-02T15:01:30.158Z","description":"St. Lucie County, Florida found a dozen Flock surveillance cameras with no identifiable owner and no county approval. 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