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Disable them by removing them yourself.
See the problem there is that it doesn't scale. You can only take down so many cameras.
Now if you convince the local scrappers that the things are full of copper...
Well, don’t sell yourself short—one camera per person destroys them all. It’s gotta start somewhere.
I’m sure those cameras would probably resell somewhere. Sell them back to flock 🙃
Sure. If all you can do is steal one camera, then steal one camera.
But...
Steal one camera, stop surveillance for a day. But teach a cracky to steal cameras for cash, stop surveillance for a generation.
Haha cracky 😂
Made me lol, too!
As I was driving around today, I was thinking how an organized trend to destroy or disable them would make them economically inefficient very quickly.
I'm no maniac driver, but I hate having to drive around paranoid that I'm going to get a ticket for going 5 mph too fast.
Well, those might not even be flock camera! But they definitely scan your plate and keep that data forever.
"Genious Gray Hat creates open-source software to repurpose second-hand flock cameras for personal use; Flock cameras start flooding Craigslist and eBay"
Problem is that many are clustered and in high-traffic areas. There's a triplet of them in one area near my neighborhood, covering entrance and exit of said area, so it's impossible to avoid detection.
Remove the devices. Like, go up to it and destroy it.
Obviously, wear a mask and common clothing
I bet they'd search for cell location records, in order to find who damaged the cameras. I hear that even turning your phone off won't help. Surely they'll be caught unless someone also leaves their phone at home.
Well, don’t commit crimes with person items on your body of any kind.
You should always leave your phone at home for that kind of thing. The same goes for protests.
A paintball gun is a good option
Or just come up to it outside of it’s FOV and wrap that fucker up
That doesn't help when there are more than one.
I addressed that already - there are three of them within 100ft of each other, and two of them are on the same post.
Here's a pic:
White truck + high viz vest. Take the whole pole from the bottom.
I work in manufacturing and have multiple hardhats and hi-vis vests available to take 😂
I just need a white truck with a bogus govt plate now... Make sure to slap a big ol' Trump sticker on it for maximum stealth. Maybe borrow my sister's work truck... Pretty generic-looking white Dodge.
You don't need a government plate. No one questions a plain white truck. You could use a plate switcher or some retro reflective tape or magnet but like, smoke a cigarette and look unhappy to be working, no one will look twice.
The cameras capture plate data, that's the issue. And along those lines - I don't know how long the retention period is for our particular area. They just started appearing.
See the Ben jordann video on thwarting that with stickers or hacking them like the Louvre.
The upside is some are installed illegally and have no legal recourse just littering their shit on public land.
i suspect some of them are the newly installed speed cameras in low-traffic areas. yea its rather suspicious to have one where there is almost no pedestrians or rarley any traffic to justify have a speed limit camera.
I wonder if a laser of some sort could mess up the camera sensors
Lasers are absolutely capable of this. A 1-watt laser could probably do it and, last time I checked, you can order 44-watt lasers online.
A 1w laser will permanently blind you instantly. You can buy/build them very cheaply and easily, but a class 4 laser isn't a toy.
For perspective, the regular red laser pointers from your local store are like 5mW at most.
A 44w laser is probably an IR fiber laser used for tattoo removal or some industrial application. You can get them cheap, but they are not handheld. Also lasers that powerful tend to be pulsed.
Nichia makes 5w+ 445nm diodes that are small enough to fit in a flashlight
I'm familiar. The 44W lasers I mentioned are blue diode lasers from consumer-grade laser cutters/engravers. They actually consist of multiple diodes with some optics that combine all the beams into a pretty small kerf. Last time I checked I was only able to find IR diode lasers up to 2W. I'm hoping to get my hands on an IR diode laser some day that I can stick on my CNC mill and make it a laser cutter as well but realistically those will have to be 2 separate devices. An IR diode laser would be a lot more stealthy for taking out Flock cameras...
Somewhere I have a 1W blue handheld laser that I bought in college and used to light blunts with. Wearing laser shades, of course.
At a place I worked at for a little while they had 16kW fiber lasers that could cut through steel like butter. It was magical.
May I introduce you to Styropyro
So you're saying my 5W laser could work? On it.
Wondering if something like this would be enough?
Class IIIA Laser Output is <5mW
Doubt it, <5mW is a laser pointer and I don't think is powerful enough to damage an eye.
Maybe something like a small battery powered laser engraver could zigzag across the lens and eventually damage the sensor.
However, to get that power from a distance would be large and prohibitively expensive for most people.
Good thinking though… a damaged sensor might be difficult to diagnose at first, leading to a longer replacement period.
Looked into that, and I wonder if the damage is significant or just a couple of dead pixels
Problem is that you are on camera, not really problem, just be careful