Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal

43 pointsposted 8 hours ago
by 01-_-

13 Comments

glaslong

2 hours ago

oh no, I hope the canal's ok

m463

an hour ago

uncertain, we've lost our feed.

K0balt

6 hours ago

Need to make a device specialized for breaking these things. An industrial vibratory device might work pretty good, especially if it had seeepable speed. Just hit the harmonic and the devices will be destroyed in a jif.

m463

42 minutes ago

I remember when speed cameras first became popular in europe. People would ride up on motorcycles, throw a tires over them and set them on fire.

I don't think vigilantes should go setting things on fire, but I also think corporate surveillance is way beyond unethical. Will we ever get a balance? Are individual rights a lost cause?

doublesocket

5 hours ago

Shouldn't a sufficiently powerful laser be able to cook the sensor quickly and easily?

nameless912

4 hours ago

You can buy very powerful handheld green laser pointers on Amazon for around 20 bucks. You absolutely shouldn't shine one into a camera sensor, ever. It says so on the box!

boston_clone

7 hours ago

My favorite part of the article is a sentence of almost soft encouragement to other privacy-minded vigilantes:

> These units sit on open roadside poles — reachable, visible, and currently without any publicly announced tamper-resistance plan.

Direct action rocks!

Simulacra

6 hours ago

Seriously: I'm actually surprised that more of these have not been attacked for their resources. As I understand it, 2 pounds of copper and 2 GB of RAM.

altairprime

8 hours ago

Ugh, it’s so disappointing to see incompetence. Flock could understand that they’re vulnerable to “just cut the pole down” and thus made the cameras easy to remove because that’s cheaper and because it doesn’t result in people cutting down municipal infrastructure, but the reporting fails to consider that possibility. And the people that did this getting their faces caught on the literal cameras they’re taking down is just chef’s kiss stupidity on a platter. I do enjoy the irony of Flock cameras being relegated to the same ‘nuisance litter’ category as those scooters, though :)

exabrial

6 hours ago

>Pole-mounted Flock cameras lack tamper-resistance, exposing a critical design vulnerability municipalities must address.

How about fuck no they don't.

mindslight

7 hours ago

"Engaged citizens confiscate and dispose of paraphernalia used by creepy stalkers"

Simulacra

7 hours ago

Don't think they were mate.