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- news@lemmy.world
Regretful cities aren’t sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
Regretful cities aren’t sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.
I 100% guarantee that “deactivated” cameras are still operational. It’s just not the City getting the data.
Heard lots of precious metals in them, wink wink, nudge, nudge, and all that then LoL
Really though, don’t do the precious metals part, cuz that’s what will get you caught. Carefully destroying them? Very doable, I strongly suspect.
The precious metals content realistically isn’t interesting at all unfortunately. You could make a bit reselling the internal components (like probably not even 3 digits), but the value on the actual copper/etc is negligible. The solar panel is probably the most interesting piece, but the components are cheap as fuck.
Its to encourage meth heads who only need 20 bucks and are desperate enough to go to jail for a lil bit of copper
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Welp. It’s too bad the shitty hotel I used to work at got shut down by the city.
We had TONS of meth heads that would be very appriciative of that information.
or take the whole pole its attached to.
I say take the company but that’s cause theres tons of copper wire and plumbing in the walls
I would have bit of extra respect for a youtuber breaking down to get the precious metals out of specifically flok cameras
Sounds like these cities need an adopt-a-Flock program to get these lonely civil rights violations into new forever homes
They don’t just collect video either. Audio, network traffic, Bluetooth devices, tons of electronic intelligence can still be gotten with covered cameras
seems like they should use those metallic ballon type bags.
Don’t think they’ll do much against the audio, but that seems like it won’t be much use by itself. Though that doesn’t matter, it’s the principle that matters, they shouldn’t be allowed to record audio like that no matter how useless it is.
figured more for wireless stuff. I was under the impression mylar acted like a faraday cage. also I imagine the crinkled reflection would be that much more annoying for the camera. I bet it would crinkle a bit to distorting noise stuff.
The Bluetooth tracking is much more sinister than people know. The city I’m in has devices specifically for this placed strategically along with the alpr and cameras. Its fuckin’ wild. Can’t even leave without them tracking you.
I don’t know how, but I bet there’s an enterprising way to make a nice cheap battery powered Bluetooth scrambler that can be stuck right on one of those poles with a magnet and just absolutely ruin their signals.