Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Another guy on hacker news:

  I’m surprised the flock cameras aren’t being disabled in a more subtle fashion.

  All it takes is a tiny drone with a stick attached, and at the end of that stick is a tiny sponge soaked with tempera paint. Drone goes ‘boop’ on the camera lens, and the entire system is disabled until an expensive technician drives out with a ladder and cleans the lens at non-trivial expense.

  A handful of enterprising activists could blind all the flock cameras in a region in a day or two, and without destroying them, which makes it less of an overtly criminal act.

  Obviously not advocating this, just pointing out that flock is very vulnerable to this very simple attack from activists.

  source

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah I’d thought of drones right away too – but those are being criminalized so rapidly esp. in the USA from what I hear… and drones can draw a lot of attention esp. in certain areas.

    DVD-writer lasers are, if I recall, not visible to the naked eye, which makes them quite dangerous (cheesy video apparently confirms this, at the end) to be paired with a visible light or dollar-store visible laser pointer, to set up the aim. Then just leave the DVD laser on for a few minutes or however long it would take to burn out the CCD.

    source

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean you wouldn’t be destroying them. I’m sure it would be a marginally lesser charge but no doubt you’d get charged eventually.

      source
• mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its a good list of good people. :)

  source
• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or just accidentally spraying some paint in their direction…

  source