Looks like silver- or tin-plated copper to me. So not entirely silver.
Don't let that fact stop anyone who might enjoy this as a past time though...
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I dunno, looks like it could be platinum to me. You know how these high tech gadgets are.
Banksy says that any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours to rearrange and reuse. It seems a reasonable extension that any surveillance device that gives you no choice whether it sees you or not is yours to rearrange and reuse.
As are the organs of the traitors who installed it.
I can't play an organ though, could I take the traitors drums instead if they have them? I could probably make a sick beat on those.
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Don't forget the copper wiring they are attached to!
And the wooden pole!
Yeah that's not "pure" silver.
Shh. Don't let the tweakers hear you. We're recruiting an army here.
They should have made it more believable then. Tweakers might be dumb, but don't spit in their face. They know their game and what metals are likely to be.
You're right - they're trying to pull one over on you. It's platinum.
That's the joke.
I mean enough scrapmetal still means food/drugs. And I'm certain many cities have a population that would find value in that. Just need to drop off some well placed flyers, and cities would be deflocked overnight.
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Looks like aluminum plated solid gold to me!
Yeah I think it's an alloy or some kind still worth it though.
If they're plated copper, they might actually have decent value. Several of the components there are electrical, so they genuinely might be. A couple of them just look like coupler nuts, so cheap mild steel.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for these memes to show actual value. Crackheads are desperate but they ain't that dumb.
If we're going to spread misinformation... Why not actually spread misinformation???
Looks like you need to make some memes my friend!
Truly the catalytic converter of 2026
I heard that all of those new "data centers" have lots of copper. Lots of it. So I'd be checking them out before they can suck up all of our good drinking water. /s
Gold as well, PCB boards contain gold.
Why /s? There must be loads of copper wiring, and I fully encourage theft from billionaires and tech grifters.
With all that extra money I can buy some ram and a new gpu!
Good news! They already have RAM and GPUs at the data centers! Skip a step, pick 'em fresh.
Data is more valuable than copper.
I'd look into grabbing some of that data
This makes no sense, sorry. Why would it be silver out of anything like stainless steel?
There isn’t that much precious metal in a small camera. The meme is about encouraging scrappers who steal,things to get scrap metal convinced it’s true and have them destroy the network. So, trying to con some criminals for the good of society.
Stop calling them criminals. They defend our right of privacy.
No, they don't do that. The meme is a joke to guide them to do that. They steal. Wiring, bricks, car parts. Sometimes from corporates but more often from people or small businesses who dont have security guards. Let's not glamorise theft of property that is not privacy invasive.
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"security researchers"
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Those are aluminium BTW.
Could be plated copper, unless you have better information - I've seen similar components in breaker panels and the like that are plated copper (plated because raw copper likes to corrode and get ugly looking).
I have just worked with aluminum pieces in a machine shop enough to spot em. I would be shocked if they were plated copper and not just aluminum.
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i like this series of posts about harvesting precious metals from surveillance devices
The batteries are genuinely valuable
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