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

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.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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

    A lot of them could be reasonably parted out or reflashed. Most of them you can get root with a button sequence

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 34 points 5 months ago

    Uplifting news

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    I don't know, it gets pretty windy where I am, it could just be that

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago

    This sounds like a quality assurance failure. 

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So only Illinois & Cali are doing this. 78K left to go💀

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

    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.

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    They’re an excellent platform to upgrade with thermite.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    Just install other flock cameras to protect the first ones or better hire some cops to do that, oh wait

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    So what's the trick to doing this if they're on a 12 ft pole?

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Shooting it would probably work.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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?"

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

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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

    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.

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

    The will probably have one camera pointing at another camera now

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    it is your duty to destroy it.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Modern day remake of Cool Hand Luke?

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