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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
And a dime bag of meth in every camera!
DarkNet and then its a fucking wizard with a balloon.
We already know what does and doesn't have cheddar in it.
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A lot of them could be reasonably parted out or reflashed. Most of them you can get root with a button sequence
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.
That sounds valuable