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[–] 342 points 6 months ago (17 children)

The word 'terrorist' has lost all meaning at this point.

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  • [–] 272 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

    DeFlock's mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

    This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

    Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

    🙄

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  • [–] 128 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    It means 'Enemy of the rich' now

    e: important clarification, by rich I mean billionaires who own the majority of everything and not successful doctors, engineers or movie stars. Know your classes, kids

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    [–] 194 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Flock is a terrorist organization.

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  • [–] 176 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    "Everything I don't like is terrorism."

    What is this, 2001 again?

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  • [–] 126 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Feeling the need to state "they are closer to Antifa than anything else" about your opponents might be a good point to rethink your ethics...

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    [–] 112 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Since Flock CEO wants to give this movement some press

    Here's Benn Jordan, he's done a series of videos on the cameras, demonstrates their vulnerabilities, and talks about how Flock has been deploying secretly by co-opting local municipalities to subsidize their national rollout.

    First video, the one seems to have started the major anti-Flock push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

    Follow-up showing how easy they are to hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

    More live demonstrated vulnerabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

    Not as directly related, but he discusses a way to use generative AI models to create noise masks for your specific plate that will disrupt the OCR process that ALPRs use. (Key term: Adversarial Noise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

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    [–] 79 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Can someone explain how this makes any sense? They were ordered legally to deactivate and remove, unilaterally decide to put them back up and reactivate, the authorities (whomever those are) resort to covering them instead of removing and destroying them because "removing them is illegal"?

    What the actual fuck is this?

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    [–] 68 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I used deflock to look for cameras around me; I CANNOT leave my city limits by car without passing by a Flock camera.

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    [–] 64 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Flock cameras need to be banned, and the ones that are left should absolutely be destroyed. There is no excuse for having these things in communities.

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    [–] 59 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    So we've moved on from Woke finally and just calling everything terrorist now? At least I won't have to ask everyone saying "everything is so woke now" to define woke and watch them sputter.

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  • [–] 59 points 5 months ago

    Does he care to explain why they leave town when cities or states simply tell them that all the data they collect becomes public domain?

    Oh, so they aren't providing a public service, the only thing they care about is selling my data and keeping it secret.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Notice how a lot of these subservience CEO often come across as quite skittish and oddly concerned about what other are doing while obfuscating their own actions, kind of reminds me of a someone I used to know with diagnosed paranoia...

    Just sayin...

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago

    Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago

    He can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago

    This guy couldn't sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago

    Flock is a terrorist organization.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago

    Terrorist calls man stopping their terror a terrorist.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago

    flock feeding the videos to palintir calling people a terrorist orgniazation

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago

    good, terrifying CEOs is the right thing to do.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's always projection with them isn't it?

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    [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    "Anything/anyone that cuts into my profits are terrorists."

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    I think FLOCK is a terrorist organizaion

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    I thought their CEO was a 15 year old boy.

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  • Wonder if their CEO finally stopped responding to hacker news threads or if he's still in there getting dunked on.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    Yeah anything or anyone that starves the greed disease is a terrorist. Shame that greed is only terminal for the victims of it and not the carriers

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