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Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky (www.techspot.com)
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Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.

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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eeh, fair enough I suppose. Basically optical fiber is impractical for police use, but these drones are a great use case for frequency hopping radios like what's used in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, that means the most likely counter to these available to the average person is going to be shotguns and flying other drones into them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    My main irritation that spurred the comment you replied to is in response to "heheheh drone interception is so easy, I personally invented 500 techniques."

    I'm not a drone expert. Maybe you are. But that person clearly is not.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Oh no for sure, that guy's talking nonsense. You can build a directed and relatively quite high power microwave antenna at home no problem - but building an n-tron (I'll be fucked if I can remember which type of '-tron' it is, I confess. Gravitron?) with enough power to take out a drone from more than a few meters away is well beyond what's feasible to construct by yourself at home.

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