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10 days agoIt’s not even USB. All data connections are wireless and either through a phone connection or a Wi-Fi mesh network (and calling it a mesh is generous, in practice this will be a dodgy daisy chain of connections running down the road).
That’s fine for updating the timing of lights to match sunset, but it sucks for data heavy applications like video surveillance.

Oh it’s much worse than that.
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/