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Flock sent researcher Joshua Michael a cease-and-desist, and now Proton hosts his map of 170,000 Flock cameras

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Someone Rebuilt Borland C++ 2.0's 1991 DOS Compiler From Its Own Binaries, Byte for Byte
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zd1 open-source firmware gives the 2011 Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air AirPlay 2 and Snapcast, flashed over USB

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