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Who'd have thought that warrant-less mass surveillance that treats every citizen like a potential criminal would eventually hit a tipping point where people began to fight back against it?
What’s funny is someone at flock is likely seeing this as a business opportunity. “With flock+ we will detect downed cameras and send a technician out to replace them instantly. Subscribe now!”
Meanwhile, municipalities are less than thrilled about defending throwing money at something literally no taxpayer wants.
This problem might solve itself really. Let the buisness majors sell the hangman their own nooses.
Meanwhile, new age Glassholes Flock to their new Meta glasses.
That's because they want to be the ones doing the surveilling. There's loads of disgusting threads you can find online about them discussing ways to disable or hide that their devices are recording so they can surreptitiously record others while claiming they're not. Most often filming vulnerable women.
Along with it incorrectly labeling people as a criminal so cops harass innocent families
That's a feature, not a bug.
The whole point of warrantless mass surveillance where you collect a person's entire life history from birth to death is to be able to go back through that history at any point they become an inconvenient person, whether because they are protesting or are a whistleblower or anything else that endangers the existing power structures. They can and will use your history to fabricate a "reasonable" narrative to turn you into whatever type of criminal they claim you are.
This is exactly why they're pushing the "antifa is an organized terrorist organization" so hard.
And they wonder why people have anxiety disorders
"You'd have anxiety too if you knew that entire government organizations were dedicated to watching your every move while everyone told you that you were crazy."
Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats.
I watched a video last night. Some guy was banned from a casino. All they had was a blurry surveillance camera photo of him.
The AI tagged some other guy as him. Cops came and arrested him. Said the man's ID must be fake, or he used a fake ID last time because there's no way their high-fallutin AI could be wrong! It was >99% certain!
There's nothing more American than destroying a Flock camera
It's like American Pie or something.😎
Edit: I know it's apple.
I was almost gonna say something about killing nazis, but..
nah, not as american
Couple dead pixels from a particularly bright light might well make them unable to do their plate reading job efficiently. Might make for an interesting study.
What shall we do with an angle grinder (3x) early in the morning?
Cut it in half and push it over (3x) early in the morning?
Lasers tend not to be good for camera sensors, I've heard.
That might actually work, but it's probably easier and safer to just use a can of spray paint
Paint seems easier to detect and remove.
Paint can be seen by passers by. A fried sensor can’t.
There's gonna be a laser beam pointing right to where you were before the camera fried.
I doubt the lenses are glass, which means the solvents in spray paint will be, effectively, impossible to clean off without damaging the lens in the process. I doubt they have a maintenance team with such finesse as opposed to one that just replaces the device, just every other US support service.
I've suggested paint before, and several people replied that there things have coatings on the lens that resist paint and other chemical attacks.
It's almost like flock anticipated that people would be pissed off at them...
Its not unreasonable for an anti-crime camera manufacturer to expect criminals to paint cameras. It's a movie trope. But anyway, sure would be nice to see some compilation of attack attempts to see what sticks
Idk about paint, but flex seal works
These things are usually pretty high up. The camera in my neighborhood are about 15ft / 4.5m up. When one goes down, they have to queue up for a truck to be sent out.
If you can climb a rope, the poles that Flock use are narrow enough to be climbed the same way
My closest examples are banded to existing street light poles with some ~12ga stainless hose clamps, maybe 10ft up. Private parking lot security. I'm guessing your example (like the thumbnail?) is the choice for a town police dept or housing dev that can't attach to street lights
Ohh, yep- I forgot about those ones! I've seen some like that around my area, but most here are on those skinny poles like shown in the thumbnail
Something something double tap.
I like your style
Ive thought about getting a stick with a cardboard sign that says fuck flock and putting it right in front of all the cameras around me that i know of
Here's a map of them: https://deflock.org/
Been awhile since I checked out this website and only now just found out there is a new one right next to the office I work at.
I could've sworn 2 weeks ago there was an article about people breaking into them to steal the wires and components.
I hear tell them cameras is full of valuable minerals like gold and copper!
Also RAM and HDDs!
I heard the Epstein files are in thar
hell yeah they are 🤘