Stealing them is felony grand theft.
Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).
If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.
If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.
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You definitely said non-exhaustive, but yes- this is nowhere near accurate for my local area- thinks there are 5 in my town but there are dozens, at least.
Me after adding almost 200 cameras to my area:
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GOOD.
ANYTHING cloud-connected - your doorbell, your security system, even all f**king post-2006 vehicles, regardless of manufacturer - are suspect.
And are highly likely to be actually spying on you.
I’ve been working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. The proportion of average people who don’t realize how much of their stuff is exposing them, and by how much, is frankly astounding. It’s almost 100% of normies who are woefully ignorant. Even IT people who have no clue is in the majority.
And the security on this stuff that tracks you tends to be - except in rare circumstances - absolute dogshite. Sometimes it comes without any security at all, such as all devices sold having admin creds baked in, or all remote-access credentials being identical and non-user-editable.
This is why almost all of my stuff is hardlined, I have no IoT devices at all, and the wifi for my family’s devices is physically separate from everything else.
Don’t get me wrong, as IT for almost three decades I love all the new shinies. But I’m not blind, and I’m not stupid.
Much later into the career than you but honestly in the same boat. I don’t fucking let any of that shit into my house, I don’t use any of the big tech companies software, FOSS on everything I own and I honestly have become so disillusioned with mainline consumer tech because it’s honestly mostly trash imo. The older I get the more I realize I just want a fucking laptop with a decent keyboard, decent screen and good battery life.
Thank god I just purchased my dream car, a 2002 Lexus. Hack that you jabronis. tape deck gang
If we won’t defend our 4th Amendment rights the sold out politicians sure as hell won’t
But but but…the internet told me that Americans welcome this with open arms! /s
This is the Mirror’s Edge type rebellion shit I would imagine myself doing when I was a kid as a future hacker. This is fucking sick as.
Tech crunch indeed.
Didn’t some use a 5000MW laser to fry some of them?
Fucking gangster.
It’s every American’s duty as an American to do so.
Good.
How did Ring avoid controversy?
Cause private citizens are doing it. Not sure why people aren’t hating on them as much yet
Based.
im glad people are fighting back. i hate these things.
