I think we need to start holding paintball battles around Flock cameras. Just to provide the surveillance techs with some entertainment, of course.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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I don’t want a tool to avoid Flock cameras. I want a tool that uses my Bluetooth to turn Flock cameras into bricks.
Funny enough, bricks do that.
TIL breaks can assimilate others like the Borg.
If you want a tool that turns Flock cameras into bricks, all you need is a brick.
... Or wire cutters, or a big hammer, or an angle grinder, or a drill, or a large rock, or a can of spray paint, etc, etc, etc. They're not terribly resilient against physical damage.
I've been thinking of buying a slingshot and some paintballs. For another, completely irrelevant purpose though, obviously.
Remember to mask up when you're going out playing with paintballs -- for covid safety! Wear sunglasses, too -- you don't want eye damage from the bright sunlight.
Oh, and perhaps most importantly, leave your phone at home. Wouldn't want to accidentally hit your phone with a paintball, would you?
problem is the camera sees you offing it. unless you bloc up way away, and not near your own stuff.
just walking a mile down a road i haven't been down in years, i spotted two of them. there's been absolutely no local coverage about it.. and scanning local municipal and town meeting minutes for the last several years--not one mention of them.
They have a whole division for pushing HOA's to partner with them and "keep the places you call home safe." So it's not even just Governments you need to wonder about, HOA's can just install them. So if you can't find anything in Government documents, it's entirely possible a nearby HOA did it.
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That's some of the sales pitch on their site about why HOA's should get them.
they were on a street that is also carries state and u.s. highway designation, just past the municipal boundary. small town here, there literally are no 'subdivisions' or hoa anywhere around.
This is how Flock tells them to operate
I'm so confused, what is the upside of allowing those for the town?
Cops love surveillance. It’s easier for them than patrolling a beat; you know actual police work.
For citizens, there is no real upside.
Could have easily called that Flock Off
That site is just a map of Flock cams. You can detect them with a tool called Flock You
In Socal we're scanned by more than 18 cameras just driving 8 miles to Costco.
Depending on the route i take, there are up to 21 Flock cameras on my way to work. Its only like 5.5 miles.
How have the tweakers not handled it already
Couldn't I just run for president and abuse my "power" like Trump, but instead of doing lots of bad I could do good? Id start by making all these executive orders to raise wealth taxes, ban invasive technologies, limit social media influence, or big tech's reach into buying out politicians, etc...
Think Robin Hood but on a presidential scale.
You could try.
My wager is you'd be assassinated, but for a glorious and short time you'd be the most successful American president in history. There's a reason why Congress term-limited presidents after FDR. People want presidents that actually do good shit. It's just that we never get a choice between two good people ever.
Yeah, seeing how they wouldn't offer secret service to RFK Jr when he ran for the short time, I'd certainly be SOL. I'd imagine I get the ol' Russian "threw myself out the window" treatment or some other suicide thing..