Everyone knows these cameras have a tendency to fall apart on their own. You’d think that with each camera having about 3lbs of copper and all the precious metals that they’d hold up better.
Someone should go around and put up flyers under the cameras that say something about how much copper and gold is inside. Give the tweakers a goal to shoot for.
IF you do this, make sure to dismantle it and rip out the radio BEFORE you take it back to the workshop. Or a metal bucket with lid is an effective faraday cage you could take the camera(s) to more discrete location to remove the radios. GPS/GLONAS/5G/BLE/WiFi can all be vectored and traced.
2 questions. Are people removing them from the map as they remove them from real life? And state high speed toll cameras are shown on that map in my areas. So roughly 60 of the 62 cameras in a 20 mile radius are toll cameras suspended above an interstate highway.
Also they aren’t flock cameras as far as I can tell.
The other 2 are at a police station that I’m too chicken shit to mess with at this stage of my life.
Offer a nice bounty on them for the unhoused. Can't knock on your door if you don't have a door! If some of the parts inside are valuable enough to make the endeavor self sustaining then it's simply a case of successful morally appropriate civil disobedience.
I was at a town hall meeting for the little town I live in. There was a line item to discuss the installation of a flock camera. A quip rang out from the crowd when it was mentioned: "Have you seen a stop sign without a bullet hole in it in the area? Do you think that camera would somehow not be shot?"
My township has been putting them on essentially every roadway entering. Some of them doubled up on the same roadway seemingly to single out those living between the two sets. Not 10 minutes south they don't even have them on freeway ramps.
They are spreading all over the Denver metro. Where I'm at many developments with HOAs seem to be the primary driver. It's wild there can be a dead end street with a few condos and someone directed their HOA or covenant funds to purchase cameras. Only people going in and out are residents.
Can someone please design an open source drone with a tank of refillable black paint?
Would be great to get swarms of cheap autonomous drones that just hide in the trees charging during the day, and fly around at night deactivating these surveillance cameras.
I think the project would be much more resilient if they were autonomous. You'd just need to hire some hippies to climb trees and refill paint tanks every now and then
39 Comments
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 96 pts · 195d
Everyone knows these cameras have a tendency to fall apart on their own. You’d think that with each camera having about 3lbs of copper and all the precious metals that they’d hold up better.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 195d
Someone should go around and put up flyers under the cameras that say something about how much copper and gold is inside. Give the tweakers a goal to shoot for.
ikidd@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 195d
And a dime bag of meth in every camera!
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
We already know what does and doesn't have cheddar in it.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 195d
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redsand@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 195d
A lot of them could be reasonably parted out or reflashed. Most of them you can get root with a button sequence
in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social · 5 pts · 195d
IF you do this, make sure to dismantle it and rip out the radio BEFORE you take it back to the workshop. Or a metal bucket with lid is an effective faraday cage you could take the camera(s) to more discrete location to remove the radios. GPS/GLONAS/5G/BLE/WiFi can all be vectored and traced.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 195d
That sounds valuable
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 195d
Uplifting news
whelk@retrolemmy.com · 23 pts · 195d
I don't know, it gets pretty windy where I am, it could just be that
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 20 pts · 195d
This sounds like a quality assurance failure.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 19 pts · 195d
So only Illinois & Cali are doing this. 78K left to go💀
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
And oregon, and Virgina, and several others the article does not explicitly name...
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 194d
2 questions. Are people removing them from the map as they remove them from real life? And state high speed toll cameras are shown on that map in my areas. So roughly 60 of the 62 cameras in a 20 mile radius are toll cameras suspended above an interstate highway.
Also they aren’t flock cameras as far as I can tell.
The other 2 are at a police station that I’m too chicken shit to mess with at this stage of my life.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 194d
contact them.
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 195d
Praxis
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 195d
They’re an excellent platform to upgrade with thermite.
idriss@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 195d
Just install other flock cameras to protect the first ones or better hire some cops to do that, oh wait
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 195d
So what's the trick to doing this if they're on a 12 ft pole?
JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 195d
The pole isn't the issue I see. It's.. well. How does one dispose of a camera that is watching you dispose of it?
Seems like all they gotta do is watch you walk up, get a face or a plate, and then knock on your door later and write a hefty fine.
tankfox@bookwyr.me · 5 pts · 195d
Offer a nice bounty on them for the unhoused. Can't knock on your door if you don't have a door! If some of the parts inside are valuable enough to make the endeavor self sustaining then it's simply a case of successful morally appropriate civil disobedience.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 5 pts · 195d
Do it at night and wear something like this ?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 195d
Bicycles. And you start at the edges. This is why we mapped their coverage
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 195d
They only point one direction.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d
Shooting it would probably work.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 195d
Well if you're going that route, I think a drone with spray paint would be better than a gun
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
I was at a town hall meeting for the little town I live in. There was a line item to discuss the installation of a flock camera. A quip rang out from the crowd when it was mentioned: "Have you seen a stop sign without a bullet hole in it in the area? Do you think that camera would somehow not be shot?"
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 195d
Pole shortener. Can pick them up at any hardware store.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
Get two six-foot Poles to do it in exchange for pierogi.
7toed@midwest.social · 4 pts · 195d
My township has been putting them on essentially every roadway entering. Some of them doubled up on the same roadway seemingly to single out those living between the two sets. Not 10 minutes south they don't even have them on freeway ramps.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social · 2 pts · 195d
They are spreading all over the Denver metro. Where I'm at many developments with HOAs seem to be the primary driver. It's wild there can be a dead end street with a few condos and someone directed their HOA or covenant funds to purchase cameras. Only people going in and out are residents.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 195d
Can someone please design an open source drone with a tank of refillable black paint?
Would be great to get swarms of cheap autonomous drones that just hide in the trees charging during the day, and fly around at night deactivating these surveillance cameras.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 195d
Do they have to be autonomous? Because your idea sounds fun.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 194d
I think the project would be much more resilient if they were autonomous. You'd just need to hire some hippies to climb trees and refill paint tanks every now and then
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 195d
I want lenses! For diy optics! Hopefully we'll see pieces showing up on fleabay soon.
Come to think of it, maybe hard drives are bad! Yeah those things are evil! Put them on eBay!
laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 195d
The will probably have one camera pointing at another camera now
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 194d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 194d
it is your duty to destroy it.
Sawblade02@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 195d
Modern day remake of Cool Hand Luke?