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[–] 17 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

A plastic bag lined with tinfoil would be more practical. Quick and dirty faraday cage

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago

    I'm kind of surprised that anyone tolerated these in the first place. Considering that even rental scooters immediately get vandalized and thrown into a ditch, you'd just think that would be even more the case for something like that which has absolutely no use to the public whatsoever. Could probably easily snipe one with even just a pellet gun.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    The camera is only a part of how it destroys privacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago

    Anyone making them for others...?

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  • [+] -18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Another pointless protest. Do people seriously believe this kind of performative gathering is going to stop indiscriminate mass surveillance? It's just the organizers creating more noise for self-promotion and microplastics everywhere 💀

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  • [–] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

    OF, respectfully, your opinion is factually incorrect. Vigilantism has been key in the fight against flock, by elevating this movement to a national prominence that has achieved a significant, otherwise unimaginable victory.

    Flock has lost nearly 500 contracts since June in 38 US states. This is because millions of average, otherwise apolitical people have been radicalized into participating in the boring, pedestrian democratic process and attending city council and county government meetings.

    Think what you want, and TBH, I was surprised to learn all this too, but the people are achieving such a significant victory against Flock that they've had to buy out employees and financially restructure. That is a big fucking deal.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Hopefully people are taking down all ALPRs and not just helping flock's competition swoop in under the radar.

    https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/other-alpr-vendors

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago*

    People keep mentioning that there are competing brands, but there's not a ton of evidence to suggest a brand pivot.

    Frankly, I don't think it'll matter. It's the technology that's pissed people off en masse, and changing brands doesn't change the fact that it fundamentally doesn't work as designed. Changing brands also doesn't change the fact that people who are supposed to be trusted with this shit routinely misuse it, and not only that, keep getting caught misusing it.

    I just think there's something that people feel down in their DNA that this technology is fundamentally Un-American, and a brand pivot isn't going to fix the anger that's manifested against it across the whole country.

    People will bust down these other cameras too.

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    [–] 33 points 6 days ago

    Sawzall blades are cheaper and actually remove the offending infrastructure. Faraday cage the electronics until they naturally discharge. Harvest the goodies thereafter. Be smart. Be safe. De-flock.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    A plastic cover only hinders the camera. There are more surveillance devices within. The only sure method of disablement is complete destruction.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Vaseline is cheap and accomplishes the same result

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Silicone spray...once a surface is contaminated with silicone there's virtually nothing that can clean it off other than gasoline or similar molecules.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    While gasoline is far more expensive than it used to be, it's still pretty fucking cheap for a cleaning agent.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    But you probably would not want that anywhere near a camera. Most lenses are plastic or have coatings or glues that turn hazy in contact with hydrocarbons. So its silicone hazy or crazed plastic haze. Pick your tick.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 days ago

    This makes me wonder if it'd be possible to print some transparent stickers with some kind of noise pattern that is very subtle, but enough to disrupt any kind of detailed image recognition.

    Then maybe it'd go undetected for a while, potentially, but basically would turn the camera into a cctv camera.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago

    Just use crazy glue

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  • [–] 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Don't print this if your printer has one of those internet-connected ghost gun print scanning systems.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    People who are motivated to print and deploy these are likely not going to have one of those compromised printers.

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  • Maybe out of people in this community and maybe for now. I checked just now and was surprised that even though Bambu has been making all their printers dependent on cloud services and closed source software, they apparently don't send all your prints to a government-affiliated entity for approval yet. But it's going to be law in California and New York so expect most printers sold in the US to have this in the future, and most cloud-dependent printers already sold in the US to add it on so they can continue selling their current models.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 days ago* (2 children)

    this has shown not to be effective flock just sends someone to remove it, only sawing the pole off is, it makes them waste more resources putting up a new one.

    n

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  • The dude they send out to remove my fancy new rainbow sparkle camera faceplate, how much you suppose they pay him per hour? I bet I can make them send him out here at least a dozen times on a single $15 roll of PLA, and I (probably) wouldn't catch charges if they caught me with it.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Not that indiscriminate. Flock cameras are concentrated in marginalized communities: https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/d6j3b_v2.html

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  • Give me 4 hours, some duct tape, and some old cardboard and I can make more than one Flock Camera UV Protection Cover. Biodegradable too. For the most part.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    A garbage bag works too. It's also apt.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Why not tie a plastic bag on it though

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    Another pointless protest. Do people seriously believe this kind of performative gathering is going to stop indiscriminate mass surveillance? It's just the organizers creating more noise for self-promotion and microplastics everywhere 💀

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Someone in the comments recommended using an actual old sock. I don't know. I don't like these things. but I don't have a circular saw. To be fair, I don't have a 3D printer either. Is spray paint and old socks the way?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Hacksaws are pretty cheap and a good blade on a tight saw makes shockingly fast progress on aluminum and mild steel.

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