• TheGoldenV@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Everyone knows these cameras have a tendency to fall apart on their own. You’d think that with each camera having about 3lbs of copper and all the precious metals that they’d hold up better.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Someone should go around and put up flyers under the cameras that say something about how much copper and gold is inside. Give the tweakers a goal to shoot for.

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      14 days ago

      A lot of them could be reasonably parted out or reflashed. Most of them you can get root with a button sequence

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        IF you do this, make sure to dismantle it and rip out the radio BEFORE you take it back to the workshop. Or a metal bucket with lid is an effective faraday cage you could take the camera(s) to more discrete location to remove the radios. GPS/GLONAS/5G/BLE/WiFi can all be vectored and traced.

    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      And oregon, and Virgina, and several others the article does not explicitly name…

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      2 questions. Are people removing them from the map as they remove them from real life? And state high speed toll cameras are shown on that map in my areas. So roughly 60 of the 62 cameras in a 20 mile radius are toll cameras suspended above an interstate highway.

      Also they aren’t flock cameras as far as I can tell.

      The other 2 are at a police station that I’m too chicken shit to mess with at this stage of my life.

    • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world
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      The pole isn’t the issue I see. It’s… well. How does one dispose of a camera that is watching you dispose of it?

      Seems like all they gotta do is watch you walk up, get a face or a plate, and then knock on your door later and write a hefty fine.

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        Offer a nice bounty on them for the unhoused. Can’t knock on your door if you don’t have a door! If some of the parts inside are valuable enough to make the endeavor self sustaining then it’s simply a case of successful morally appropriate civil disobedience.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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        14 days ago

        Well if you’re going that route, I think a drone with spray paint would be better than a gun

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        I was at a town hall meeting for the little town I live in. There was a line item to discuss the installation of a flock camera. A quip rang out from the crowd when it was mentioned: “Have you seen a stop sign without a bullet hole in it in the area? Do you think that camera would somehow not be shot?”

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    I want lenses! For diy optics! Hopefully we’ll see pieces showing up on fleabay soon.

    Come to think of it, maybe hard drives are bad! Yeah those things are evil! Put them on eBay!

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    Can someone please design an open source drone with a tank of refillable black paint?

    Would be great to get swarms of cheap autonomous drones that just hide in the trees charging during the day, and fly around at night deactivating these surveillance cameras.

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        I think the project would be much more resilient if they were autonomous. You’d just need to hire some hippies to climb trees and refill paint tanks every now and then