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What's the point of even having the 4th Amendment when corporations can completely sidestep it and tell the government exactly what you're doing all the time? Corporations and the government are essentially the same entity with this massive loophole.
The constitution isn’t real anymore. It hasn’t been for a long time. Nothing is getting better until we have a revolution and constitutional convention
They want us to believe we're "free" and have "rights".
Whenever a leftist talks about technofascism and technofeudalism, this is that.
Ignore them and let big brother watch you, citizen. Being adversarial to the safety that monitoring provides would be far too political for your centrist, apolotical heart. Just accept that this is the price of safety and work hard and have kids. Take the blue pill.
Or you can take the red pill, and free your mind.
I am on nextdoor and at least once a week there's a post about Seattle's mayor turning off the flock cameras and it's inevitably flooded by Republicans screaming and shouting that she wants there to be more murder. These people have no critical thinking skills and just parrot anything whatever media station they chose says.
They always disappear when I point out the cameras have been hacked, Leo's nationwide can access, they've been caught stalking with the cameras, they can listen in on conversations through a cracked window, and we have no guarantees the data won't be fed to AI. Guess I can add precise location tracking through phones to the list too.
~~hide your devices in a faraday cage~~ X
Drive around with a machine with 20k reprogrammable-MAC bluetooth radios that randomize the MAC address every 10 seconds ✓
Or buy cloned devices from China which all have the same MAC
How many criminals are taking along their microchipped pets to and from their crimes?
Rhetorical question I know. They simply do not want to allow dissidents and undesirables the freedom of movement.
Also, if you contribute to a project like this, you are a traitor and should be treated as such.
This is how you make tech enthusiasts hate tech.
Or motivate them to tactically acquire new hardware.
The elites don't want you to know this but the cameras in the park are free, you can take them home.
Strategically Transfer Equipment to Another Location
I had heard previously that shining multiple laser pointers at a camera will break it. Just a thought.
Does GDPR protect Europeans from this kind of boring surveillance dystopia?
IANAL but it does have a bunch of exceptions allowing governments to do whatever they want.
I what?
I love anal
I Am Not A Lawyer
Enshittification of society itself
If they track all that other stuff then they are not 'license plate cameras'.
We have to quit these corporate electronics.
Soon? Oh boy do I have some bad news for this reporter
License plate cameras will soon discover rapid unscheduled disassembly
Mass surveillance by corporation
I'd be a shame if someone hid an ESP32 nearby randomly broadcasting previously detected MAC addresses.
Despite doing an awful lot with ESP32s, Home assistant, and a bunch of LoRa stuff, I know very little about BLE. Would it be possible for folks to voluntarily add their MAC to a data base on gitlab, and have a ESP32 program that:
Thinking in terms of database management systems I would think these systems collect enough unique info that they probably can use 'composite-keys' to sort through collected content. If thats the case then they can probably filter out all of those fake MAC addresses with relative ease, but I like where your head is at.
... pet microchips are passive LF RFID tags, they have a readable range of maybe 15cm? Unless they've figured out some way to power them at distance (or they're sticking UHF tags in your dogs, which they arent) without frying the camera and giving everyone cancer, they're inert. What weird marketing hype.
One of the reasons 80s tech is making a comeback.
Maybe time to start creating devices that spam various Bluetooth MACs and just leave them around... Raise the noise floor a bit
Nah, too easy to filter. Make them clone MACs they've seen, and simulate trips around the city.
ghost in the shell laughing man shit.
a couple years go by and they don't know how to track people regularly anymore.
so if we bypass these sensors and algorithms, we become invisible in plain sight
Could one build a device that could overload these with fake data?
Or should we just use cordless angle grinders?
I don't know anything about jamming these but I do know that DeWalt makes a pretty good cordless angle grinder
Its funnier than that, jammers are not legal, but data poisioning is. Leave a device near by that just rotates through IDs of all the signal types you know its listening for and it protects everyone passing by because their UIDs get lost in the noise.
Did we just initiate a kernel panic challenge?
