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[-] laz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 minutes ago

The will probably have one camera pointing at another camera now

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

They’re an excellent platform to upgrade with thermite.

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 11 points 6 hours ago

So only Illinois & Cali are doing this. 78K left to go💀

[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

And oregon, and Virgina, and several others the article does not explicitly name...

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 26 points 9 hours ago

Uplifting news

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 6 hours ago

Do what's the trick to doing this if they're on a 12 ft pole?

[-] JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago

The pole isn't the issue I see. It's.. well. How does one dispose of a camera that is watching you dispose of it?

Seems like all they gotta do is watch you walk up, get a face or a plate, and then knock on your door later and write a hefty fine.

[-] tankfox@bookwyr.me 3 points 1 hour ago

Offer a nice bounty on them for the unhoused. Can't knock on your door if you don't have a door! If some of the parts inside are valuable enough to make the endeavor self sustaining then it's simply a case of successful morally appropriate civil disobedience.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Shooting it would probably work.

[-] whelk@retrolemmy.com 17 points 8 hours ago

I don't know, it gets pretty windy where I am, it could just be that

[-] TheGoldenV@lemmy.world 81 points 11 hours ago

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.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 hours ago

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.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

And a dime bag of meth in every camera!

[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 3 hours ago

DarkNet and then its a fucking wizard with a balloon.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 6 hours ago
[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We already know what does and doesn't have cheddar in it.

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 6 points 6 hours ago

A lot of them could be reasonably parted out or reflashed. Most of them you can get root with a button sequence

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

That sounds valuable

[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago
[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 hours ago

This sounds like a quality assurance failure. 

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 4 points 7 hours ago

My township has been putting them on essentially every roadway entering. Some of them doubled up on the same roadway seemingly to single out those living between the two sets. Not 10 minutes south they don't even have them on freeway ramps.

[-] idriss@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 hours ago

Just install other flock cameras to protect the first ones or better hire some cops to do that, oh wait

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago

I want lenses! For diy optics! Hopefully we'll see pieces showing up on fleabay soon.

Come to think of it, maybe hard drives are bad! Yeah those things are evil! Put them on eBay!

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