The word 'terrorist' has lost all meaning at this point.
I had to double-check what Deflock was for:
DeFlock's mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.
This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.
Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?
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Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!
Shit I just had a thought
Better ask chatgpt what to do about that.
Shit from the title I thought they were going around smashing the cameras and that it was an exaggeration, but I was clearly wrong on the scale
This is just a play out of the rules for radicals playbook: accuse others of what you are doing.
DARVO
It lost all meaning the second Bush declared the "War on Terror".
It means 'Enemy of the rich' now
e: important clarification, by rich I mean billionaires who own the majority of everything and not successful doctors, engineers or movie stars. Know your classes, kids
Flock is a terrorist organization.
Flock is a state sponsored terrorist organization.
"Everything I don't like is terrorism."
What is this, 2001 again?
Did it ever stop?
It's accelerated: In 2001, technology companies were forced to collect user data and realized it could be a goldmine. Today, technology companies are being forced to collect people's IDs... I'm sure this will end up just fine.
Spoken like an antifa, uh, 3 star general. Get him boys! /s The future is a lot dumber than we might have thought.
Feeling the need to state "they are closer to Antifa than anything else" about your opponents might be a good point to rethink your ethics...
So... Flock have literally described themselves as fascist...
Their self description fits their actions.
Since Flock CEO wants to give this movement some press
Here's Benn Jordan, he's done a series of videos on the cameras, demonstrates their vulnerabilities, and talks about how Flock has been deploying secretly by co-opting local municipalities to subsidize their national rollout.
First video, the one seems to have started the major anti-Flock push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
Follow-up showing how easy they are to hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
More live demonstrated vulnerabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
Not as directly related, but he discusses a way to use generative AI models to create noise masks for your specific plate that will disrupt the OCR process that ALPRs use. (Key term: Adversarial Noise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk
This guy is the coolest type of hacker.
Can someone explain how this makes any sense? They were ordered legally to deactivate and remove, unilaterally decide to put them back up and reactivate, the authorities (whomever those are) resort to covering them instead of removing and destroying them because "removing them is illegal"?
What the actual fuck is this?
I used deflock to look for cameras around me; I CANNOT leave my city limits by car without passing by a Flock camera.
My city is one of the few in my county that doesn't have a contract with flock, but the county was nice enough to put them up around town anyway.
Same for me. In addition to deflock.me and haveibeenflocked.com, are there any community resource sites for finding others in the same city that would be willing to start pushing on the city to cancel their contract?
Flock cameras need to be banned, and the ones that are left should absolutely be destroyed. There is no excuse for having these things in communities.
So we've moved on from Woke finally and just calling everything terrorist now? At least I won't have to ask everyone saying "everything is so woke now" to define woke and watch them sputter.
That will just be replaced with asking them to define terrorism and watching them sputter.
Does he care to explain why they leave town when cities or states simply tell them that all the data they collect becomes public domain?
Oh, so they aren't providing a public service, the only thing they care about is selling my data and keeping it secret.
Notice how a lot of these servailence CEO often come across as quite skittish and oddly concerned about what other are doing while obvuscating their own actions, kind of reminds me of a someone I used to know with diegnosed parinoia...
Just sayin...
Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization
He can go fuck himself.
This guy couldn't sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.
Flock is a terrorist organization.
good, terrifying CEOs is the right thing to do.
Terrorist calls man stopping their terror a terrorist.
flock feeding the videos to palintir calling people a terrorist orgniazation
It's always projection with them isn't it?
"Anything/anyone that cuts into my profits are terrorists."
I think FLOCK is a terrorist organizaion
I thought their CEO was a 15 year old boy.
Wonder if their CEO finally stopped responding to hacker news threads or if he's still in there getting dunked on.
Yeah anything or anyone that starves the greed disease is a terrorist. Shame that greed is only terminal for the victims of it and not the carriers
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