• quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    3 hours ago

    I feel like this effort would be better optimized by a drone with black spray paint

    Surely one drone could take out about 100 cameras every night?

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    22 hours ago

    They kept stealing or destroying the ones in my area so they started putting them on massively tall poles. It’s pretty unnerving to look up and notice them everywhere.

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      7 hours ago

      Assuming these are hollow aluminum poles, could drill a small hole and fill them with hydrochloric acid or something… Will probably bring them down quickly

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      10 hours ago

      FOIA requests for Flock data are much more permanent solutions to them

      So far pretty much every jurisdiction has removed them instead of complying with FOIA requests for footage/data

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        10 hours ago

        Do you have a source? I want to believe you but I’m genuinely curious. There are a few nearby that I could reasonably request information for (I think).

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      21 hours ago

      I’m glad they’re keeping their cameras safe, but I do worry that a handheld laser could still reach a camera on a tall pole, though the operator might have to stand far enough away that they couldn’t be recognized. I hope no one would try to damage a valuable camera like that.

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          15 hours ago

          That sounds dangerous. Happen to know of any sites that sell such lasers, so I can make sure it’s in my network’s blocklist?

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        9 hours ago

        God the first person who does this and has an airplane see it is gonna get fucked.

        “No I wasn’t trying to laze the airplane I was aiming for the flock camera”

    • Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml
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      14 hours ago

      It is proper etiquette to yell “timber” when felling a Flock pole.

      Much easier to become proficient with the use of a slingshot; old school tech for a modern tech problem.

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    22 hours ago

    Why are they smashing them? Is it to steal their rich raw materials hidden inside that you can sell and are impossible to trace back?

    Why would anybody smash flock cameras, ones that have hundreds of dollars of raw materials hidden inside of them that you can sell and are impossible to trace back?

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    Working really hard to keep an eye on common people … when the country should be looking really closely at those in leadership instead