A Hacker Wrapped A Toyota And Flock’s Cameras Couldn’t Tell It Was A Car

A wrapped Toyota Yaris reportedly confused a Flock camera at Def Con. The camera recorded the car but apparently failed to classify it. An earlier plate sticker showed a subtler way to disrupt automated reads. A 2009 Toyota Yaris isn’t the sort of thing that usually counts as breaking news, even if it’s one wrapped in a vinyl that looks lifted from a 1990s jetski brochure. Still, that’s exactly what we have here because the manic design on this little car did something few can. It fooled an automatic license plate reader. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else {…

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