The problem goes even deeper than messy RBAC in a database. This story showed that the system's brains are pushed to the edge, and if you gain access to the dev

The problem goes even deeper than messy RBAC in a database. This story showed that the system's brains are pushed to the edge, and if you gain access to the device, you don't even need the central police database. You get a local, highly intelligent agent working autonomously. This breaks the traditional threat model where we worry about "someone leaking the database"; here, the camera itself becomes an active reconnaissance tool. It turns out that instead of hacking a complex, (hopefully) secured cloud, you just need to find a smart eye like this with default settings, and you already have a personal spy at an intersection, bypassing any police access protocols