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

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• BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Realistically speaking, what’s the likelihood that a jury would convict someone of cutting down surveillance camera posts? Feels like most potential jurors would support such actions.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I dont know, I guess it depends on how afraid of Trump they are under current administration.

    There should be laws against mass surveillance in the US, isnt there?

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    • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Brother, since the PATRIOT Act passed, we’ve had laws for mass surveillance.

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wonder if Flock cameras would be susceptible to burnout from a DVD-writer laser. Hmm.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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  • mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its a good list of good people. :)

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or just accidentally spraying some paint in their direction…

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I realized recently that every other apartment in my building has those ring cameras on their front doors, meaning I’m being put in some database every time I leave my place. Why do they even need that? It’s not like strangers can get into the building, and packages all go to a special room.

  Not really flock related, but still.

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