Key Takeaways
- The FBI was able to produce footage from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest doorbell, even though authorities previously said it was disconnected.
- FBI Director Kash Patel says the video was recovered “from residual data located in backend systems,” but didn’t share additional details.
- It is possible that Guthrie’s doorbell had saved videos or video data points from its event history, which the FBI could have used to piece together the full clips.
Why would the FBI release staged doorbell camera footage during an active hostage investigation? That doesn’t seem very reasonable under the circumstances.
I am interested to hear more about the origins of the release footage though, along with what was stored where, who had access, and what reconstruction if any needed to take place.
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This reinforces something about Google that we already knew. They don’t need to charge for services when compromising our privacy is the real objective. I bet Gemini could give use a frame by frame recreation of events since it was already included it in the training set. This is sarcasm btw. I don’t currently believe the footage is AI generated.
I’ll edit this in for context since my previous comments are disappearing. I was under the impression that the doorbell camera was disconnected.
As per the article:
the FBI has seemingly produced this video out of thin air.
I find this suspicous. That is all. Pure conjecture.
Flock cameras, which supposedly don’t store footage, have been found to contain images from the factory. I have included it as an example of how manufacturer claims cannot be taken at face value.
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This case did not involve a flock camera, as far as the public has been made aware.
For context I’ve attached a CNN article which was previously posted in this thread, and details some of the situation surrounding the footage origin.
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