Didn't some use a 5000MW laser to fry some of them?
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Fucking gangster.
Good.
im glad people are fighting back. i hate these things.
Tech crunch indeed.
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.
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.
Thank god I just purchased my dream car, a 2002 Lexus. Hack that you jabronis. tape deck gang
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.
Here's a (non-exhaustive) map of Flock cameras: https://deflock.org/
We can all do our part. Be safe and hide your identity. Leave your phones at home because they can be used to track you.
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:
after ~~adding~~ removing almost 200 cameras...
I add them to the map so the cool people know where to score some free copper...
How did Ring avoid controversy?
Cause private citizens are doing it. Not sure why people aren't hating on them as much yet
It's every American's duty as an American to do so.
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'.
Who'd have thought that warrant-less mass surveillance that treats every citizen like a potential criminal would eventually hit a tipping point where people began to fight back against it?
What’s funny is someone at flock is likely seeing this as a business opportunity. “With flock+ we will detect downed cameras and send a technician out to replace them instantly. Subscribe now!”
Meanwhile, municipalities are less than thrilled about defending throwing money at something literally no taxpayer wants.
This problem might solve itself really. Let the buisness majors sell the hangman their own nooses.
Sadly some people do want flock cameras because they think it's worth it to have a better chance of catching criminals even if our personal liberties get taken away. It's the age old freedom vs safety discussion.
The thing is though you could have both, at least to a degree. You could have much more transparent policing, the cameras could do processing purely locally and based on publicly accessible lists with listed reasons for why the given plates are captured, you could make it so that the only ones who do get the data are actually thr police and not thr company selling the cameras, etc.
But that's not in the interest of Flock, or even really the powers that be. The surveillance machine needs feeding, doesn't matter for what cost.
Yes, I agree very much with your statement. I think our lives would be much better if our government was built like an open source project lol
Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither
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Along with it incorrectly labeling people as a criminal so cops harass innocent families
That's a feature, not a bug.
The whole point of warrantless mass surveillance where you collect a person's entire life history from birth to death is to be able to go back through that history at any point they become an inconvenient person, whether because they are protesting or are a whistleblower or anything else that endangers the existing power structures. They can and will use your history to fabricate a "reasonable" narrative to turn you into whatever type of criminal they claim you are.
This is exactly why they're pushing the "antifa is an organized terrorist organization" so hard.
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Nooooo! Not property damage noooooooooo!!!!!
If we won’t defend our 4th Amendment rights the sold out politicians sure as hell won’t
GOOD.
Based.
Any RAM or storage in those things? That solar panel looks useful.
That solar panel looks useful.
Since I have never gone out in nondescript black clothing at night to destroy these things, I can't say from firsthand knowledge....
But yes, yes they are. They make great trickle chargers for large batteries that only get used intermittently. Or string several together and enjoy an ebike battery charger. I have a similarly sized and shaped panel I found somewhere that I use to charge my 18650 bank.
“That I found somewhere” is funnier than usual given the context
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