That one’s begging for some spray paint
A camera is only one of the many sensors in the surveillance system
It will at least have one less method to surveil us with.
Might be fake but apparently those refillable K-lighters can be loaded with paint via a spray can and depressing the lighter shoots out a perfectly lens shaped spray of paint.
Well shit… let me go do some research. For science.
Fire extinguisher filled with paint works better
Yes but also depends. The lighter is concealable. As someone whose done CCTV investigations, that will be a massive headache for anyone trying to catch you after the fact.
Try EMP.
Land of the free home of the Surveillance State
still vulnerable to a hammer and a lock cutter
Just so everyone is aware, even the non-flock speed readers are almost certainly tracking you by your license plate, if not more. I helped try to find a missing elderly person a while ago, maybe five or so years ago, and the government had a record of his movements based on reading his license plate from static roadside devices. I also know that the local cops had a speed display thingie like shown on the video that would alert them to license plates that were listed as stolen vehicles. I wouldn’t doubt that it also tracked every other license plate it read. That was, give or take, a decade ago.
Flock might have notoriety right now, but fuck if the ‘littler’ things like cops put up probably don’t also have more than just cameras now. I’m especially thinking of the things that look like those shown 3 or four posts down on this old post
In my friends city they use drones that do fly bys.
I remember visiting and we’re all outside and smoking weed at night and a drone flies over the house next to us, goes down a line across other houses and makes a turn and flies down the row right next to the last one it made. Like it was mowing the lawn.
At first I thought it was a hobbyists until I noticed the pattern it was taking. It was a surveillance drone and when I asked my buddy if there was a manhunt or something going on for someone he replied that that’s the local police stations drone and that they do that all the time.
I’ll never forget the terror I felt when he said that. I don’t smoke all the time either so I was just staring at them in disbelief while they were all laughing and just chilling about it while I was freaking the absolute hell out about it. I remember they told me I’m just being paranoid.
“ABOUT NIGHTLY DRONE FLY BYS BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT!?” I still can’t believe said I’m just being paranoid about being scared shirtless about that and what ur brings for the future.
Police surveillance has been overreaching for a long time
Welcome, to City 17. It’s safer here.
This is what’s been confusing me about this whole situation. They’ve been tracking vehicle movements with ANPR cameras, the movements of your phone from its Bluetooth and wifi transmissions, and your movements with facial recognition for years now. Flock just stapled “AI” on to it and marketed it harder.
It’s great to see communities finally speaking up about these issues, but it’s going to take a lot of work to undo it all. In the meantime, if you have people around you that you can trust, maybe pool your vehicles and phones to increase the noise in their data.
People like the EFF have been fighting these surveillance cameras that track plates for years and years. Flock specifically got notoriety because people started getting grabbed off the street and shipped off to camps or foreign Gulags and we learned Flock was providing the tracking data to do it. Families have been ripped apart and people have died in a reasonable connection with Flock.
I guess what I should have said was that I’m confused as to why more people weren’t up in arms before now. I’m not actually confused, as you say, the harm has now been made obvious when it could be ignored before, but I am frustrated. My biggest concern is that Flock will act as a lightening rod for people’s anger and eventually be removed, leaving the rest of the system intact. It feels very much like a sacrificial move to get people to ignore the underlying problem, whilst exposing themselves if they take action, and allowing those in favour of tracking to say “see it’s just those violent extremists who don’t like being tracked, you’re not like that, so you have nothing to fear, right?” The public pushback needs to be widened, somehow, to encompass all forms of tracking like this.
Wouldn’t it be absolutely horrible if somebody accidentally swung a sledgehammer into the back of that from the other side before being filmed.
do not bring any phone or smart device with you
As soundtrack i recommend Savant - Slegdehammer.
Dismantle the whole thing. Punish them.
How does that punish anyone? You may feel righteous venting your anger on a hunk of plastic, but that feeling doesn’t signify anything.
Dismantle not wreck. Take every part.
It hits their budget. In so much as they have one. Its not the punishment they deserve, but you need to find their families for that.
Look, your time would be better served putting together a delegation to speak before your local municipal council. It’s easy, it’s free, it’s your right, and it’s far more effective than random vandalism. If you haven’t even done that, you’re probably not very serious about this and you’re just here venting your impotence.
You think someone doing this gives a shit what I have yo say? Have you seen what they spend on tear gas?
lol
It hits YOUR budget. Who is this “they”??
No, seriously, who is this “they” with families that you are now threatening? Who do you think this punishes? I really want to know.
There are those who want to be left alone, and They/them/those are those ones you just won’t leave them alone.
Who owns the cameras, numbnuts?
Oh, you’re just some random abusive user, not the person I was talking to. Both please forgive my mistake.
I do. The public does. Who do you think owns and pays for the cameras? And why are you being so cagey about answering my simple questions? The abuse and evasion you respond with makes me think they are somehow threatening to you, but that would be absurd. Right?
‘The public’?
The same ‘public’ that makes all my friends own anonymizing clothing that covers all identifying features and gas masks in case they ever want to hold up a sign asking that their tax dollars not be used to fund the rape of babies and murder of entire hospitals? The same ‘public’ that makes everyone I know feel like they’re a hunted animal when they dye their hair or go into a rich part of town or speak their mind in the open? The same ‘public’ that disappears people for being homeless or born an hour’s drive south of here, and kills people for asking themto stop?
Because that ‘public’ and the people who support them need to be killed.
No, Flock owns their cameras. The public paying for damages only extends until the public refuses to do so.
I’m not being cagey, I’m someone else pointing out that you’re an idiot who apparently can’t even read usernames
The game is now the people vs the unelected.
The elected feel entitled to their positions and are trying to established the unelected to attain their desires outside of the will of the people.
Is covering it a obstruction? Since the device it’s in clearly is for another usecase.
These things aren’t new, even a little bit. Whoever posted this really must be from Podunk if this is the first time they’ve seen one.
With the flock camera in the back?
Big ball of mud should take care of that for a while
