Andreessen Horowitz, which led Flock’s $275 million funding round in March 2025, has also backed Toka, an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that has reportedly developed tools capable of breaking into connected cameras and manipulating their footage.

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    13 hours ago

    So, once video evidence becomes unusable as a source of the truth, they also don’t win, right? It may take time, and a lot of fuckery, but it’s only so long until someone uses it to frame prosecutors and judges, it’s kind of a battle of attrition at that point

    Granted, they are on the other side of the class divide generally, but this all seems like a really easy thing to fight fire with fire on

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      Yeah my first thought was why invest in both a video evidence company and a video invalidation company. I guess to hedge bets, but it’s really just because they can make plenty of money on e before it is invalidated.

      Darker timeline is just merging the 2 companies so they have the perfect tool to arrest and oppress whoever they want.

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        11 hours ago

        No, perhaps not, that kinda implies it’s irrelevant that they’re doing any of this then, which isn’t quite true. They have a vested enough interest in modifying evidence that they’ve made steps to do just that.

        They care about evidence when it suits them, real or not, that can work both ways though if they make it so evidence is rendered untrustable entirely.