You know about NEMA nodes, meet electricity: it turns special rocks into logic machines that can be used as a surveillance network.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Yeah so many legitimate uses for power outlets at the very top of street lamps.
Are people really this naive? Or is it sort of a self delusion?
Anyone feel like mapping out all the companies, how they're related, and boycotting them all in Pressure Campaign?
I knew this shit was going to happen. And then eventually damn near invisible. Black mirror ain't got shit on reality.
Some people view dystopian sci-fi as entertainment. Some people view it as a warning. What you can’t forget, though, is that some people view it aspirationally.
I couldn't watch it. I've seen two episodes and they disturbed me to my core with how plausible they were. Like Idiocracy, I could only watch that once and I think of it as a horror film rather than a comedy. Because of how plausible it was.
It's time for electronic weaponry to hit mass production. EMP gun tech can be refined and perfected outside of official labs these days.
I’d rather there be a jammer when I drive
I mean, you can build one yourself, but a real damaging version would require a lot of power.
Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don't have a very long range.
I guess a phased array emp would be the best way to do it.
Not easily done with the DIY hacky way of doing it with a coil and teaser generator, but I'm sure with some decent mosfets and transformers, it should be possible.
Unfortunately due to the inverse square law, they don't have a very long range.
Possibly for the better. Last thing you need is people accidentally hitting a plane with one of them.
People already do it with lasers. Something that destroys the electronics would be even worse.
would it not be enabled by putting it on the end of a long stick?
At that point, just have spray paint on a stick. Or better, just a long paint roller.
Not all surveilance is optical. It might just be listening for your BLE chirps or other 2.4ghz traffic from your devices
Lol, could work.
I can imagine a stick and just walking post to post touching each one while wearing a hi-viz with PG&E printed on it.
If you can rig it to the top of a vehicle, you can get them faster maybe.
I wonder how well these spy devices would hold up if someone connected a horn antenna to an industrial magnetron and blasted them with 10-20 kW of RF?
You should try, for science!
How? I've been trying my best to find a DIY EMP, and AFAICT, none of the ones that are easy to find blueprints or instructions to build actually create an EMP. They just short out spectacularly.
I posted one above, however given the height of many of these installations, I think the common piezo+coil demo mounted on either a telescopic floodlight bulb changing pole or a payload drone modified to shield the controller board (otherwise plan to replace the boards) would be simpler safer and cheaper.
Because you need a fuckton of energy to produce an EMP capable of damaging anything. Unless you have access to military grade warheads or a low yield nuclear device, you can forget about it.
At distance yes. Close up it’s easy. Aluminum foil in your microwave easy.
Will be more fun to cut down.
Guess they all have to come down just to be sure?
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