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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 94 points 8 months ago (8 children)

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.

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  • [–] 36 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    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.

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