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    Your flock post reminder that they aren’t just license plate readers. They capture Bluetooth and wifi MACs, NFC IDs, and cellphone IMEIs, scan for wifi ssids (exactly like a WiFi Pineapple, to further fingerprint a device) from every device within range. They also do facial recognition of everyone within view of the lens. All that information is sent to flock for sale to any government agency,

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      A couple of magnets and a small sheet of metal will not only block the camera, but also leave it fully enclosed in a metal box.

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        Fuck the people in my town have just started running them over with their cars.

        To the point it’s making headlines in the news lmao

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            Sure, but it makes it a whole lot easier for the next activist to disable that

            We work in teams. Each accoring to their own ability and risk appetite.

            First, someone maps the location of the cameras on OSM. That’s totally legal and extremely important for the whole effort.

            Next, someone spray paints them. Then someone cuts them down and smashes them. Finally, scrappers come to collect the waste.

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            I’m just pragmatic. It works better at scale to fill an old fire extinguisher with black spray paint and pressurize it

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              No, and as said that only blocks the camera and nothing else. Every single thread I’ve seen feels like there are people who are actively trying to suggest the worst ways to do something to them. It almost feels like paid actors who are there to lower the level of handicap made to the cameras, it’s that prevalent.
              Again and again it’s someone who says the right thing, actually destroying them or using something to disable more than just one thing and there’s always replies like yours.
              I just don’t understand how people witch such immense ignorance and idiocy show up and reply to every fucking thread.

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      It would be a shame if someone much smarter than me used that knowledge to exploit these systems with malware freedomeware.

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      Are some allegedly ALPR+car identification (including dents and “convoys”, associated vehicles) only while others (like some capturing walking paths) do the faces + audio & all?

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    Wouldn’t it be absolutely horrible if somebody accidentally swung a sledgehammer into the back of that from the other side before being filmed.

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    My. Local jackasses just put a speed reader like this right in one of the lanes on my street. It tells you your speed as you swerve around it into incoming traffic. It’s infuriating… Now I want to check to see if has a flock cam in it.

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      How does that punish anyone? You may feel righteous venting your anger on a hunk of plastic, but that feeling doesn’t signify anything.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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.

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            There are those who want to be left alone, and They/them/those are those ones you just won’t leave them alone.

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              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?

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                ‘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.

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                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