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 bricks can assimilate other bricks like the Borg.
Need to figure out a small scale, cheap, EMP device that can be set off to fry the cameras and sensors, but nothing else that is around.
The “Nothing else around” is the hard part of that.
Agreed, though I would expect one to not be carrying anything that could be affected by such a device, whilst deploying said devices. So personal devices don’t count as needing protection AFAIC
If it’s using Bluetooth to knacker them, then all the nearby Bluetooth devices would be vulnerable.
Medical equipment these days also can feature Bluetooth for mobile connectivity, and you can’t exactly go without your defibrillator, hearing aids, or insulin pump.
maybe some kinda really directional antenna? like a laser but for the radio range of EM
need to have line of sight and accurate aim, however
Yagi antenna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yagi–Uda_antenna
so that’s what they’re called
I heard that certain laser pointers of a specific wavelength can cook most cameras.
Portable angle grinder.
I would think that a simple laser-pointer pointed at the camera would be enough to damage the sensor?
You’ll need around a 1-watt green (532nm) laser pointer. That’s gonna run you about $500 and they’re kinda dangerous.
$60 for a hobbyist who can hook up a module.
True, but like I said, kinda dangerous. I like my eyes.
Best to wear laser goggles for sure.
Lasers would be quite risky. Anything that powerful would also instantly obliterate peoples’ vision if there’s a reflection and it gets them in the eye.
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Clickbait headline. The tool is https://deflock.org/
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
Burned into my mind is the reaction to my rural town’s mayor when Flock was brought up:
“Have you seen the stop signs around here? Do you think those cameras will last any longer?”
Many of the local stop signs have at least one bullet hole in them. Armored mailboxes are commonplace. They want to put up something in the sticks that it isn’t morally ambiguous to destroy?
Armored…mailboxes? How can people suck that bad?
They aren’t shooting at them. It used to be a popular thing for teenagers to whack mailboxes from moving cars using baseball bats or similar implements. It was a bigger problem ~20 years ago.
Of course now you’re likely to break your hand/arm/bat if you try it. I’ve seen several methods used to prevent damage to mailboxes, including cages made from rebar, stacks of mobile home rims with a mailbox in the center, mailboxes made from drill pipe, the mailbox at my house is made from 1/4" thick steel plate and the post it is mounted to is a piece of I-beam. It’s bonkers. I think you could hit it with a semi truck and the truck would lose. I didn’t build it, it was there when I bought the house.
I always thought mailboxes were a weird tv thing for rural areas. Don’t you guys have letterboxes?
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Letterboxes are seen in cities sometimes, but in the middle of nowhere, everyone has a mailbox by the road. Sometimes they are clustered together, a bunch of boxes in the same place so the mail carrier doesn’t have to drive a mile down some unpaved dead end road.
Usually no
We tend to put our houses in the center of our properties and often don’t have any front-yard fencing. Making the mail carriers walk all the way up to every house would be prohibitatively time consuming. Without a fence, we need to put the letterbox on a post, so we use a mailbox.
You don’t even have to be all that rural. If you have a single-family unattached home that wasn’t built in a developer plan, you’ll end up with a mailbox on a post at the road to one side of your driveway. Unless a specific location has a problem with theft, we don’t even have a locking system.
In the newer planned neighborhoods, they’ll set up cluster mailboxes.
Thanks!
Mine is made from 14g steel. Someone took out my last 2. Even threw eggs and canned foods at it a few times. No clue who I pissed off. Changed out the box, posted on facebook we upgraded it and installed a hidden camera, and they stopped. Funny thing is the post is 3in pvc pipe painted to kinda look like iron (I had to span 4 feet cause the box has to set over an asphalt ditch).
In Socal we’re scanned by more than 18 cameras just driving 8 miles to Costco.
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…
Small little ruralish tourist town, we got em at Lowe’s and Walmart, and 2 in one of the highest traffic areas. Thinking about seeing to sign for the meth heads letting them know there’s valuable metal (gold) in dem
hillscamerasHow have the tweakers not handled it already
Depending on the route i take, there are up to 21 Flock cameras on my way to work. Its only like 5.5 miles.
Is a webpage a “tool”?
I keep hearing from US friends that their best tool was getting involved and having Flock banned from their counties and cities.
Tire pressuse sensors broadcast unique ID’s
we’re so cooked :)
Deflock=where they are… Start mob grouping the cameras.
Has anyone here tried caulking a super strong magnet on to one of the poles? They make squeeze caulk that can do multi surface.
Could also just start taking them out? Just start throwing rocks at them and using a hammer against the boxes. Spray painting the cameras. Idk, there’s things people can do.
Make a program that’s constantly making it seem like there’s ghost devices and overload the list and it does it so much they can’t use it. Ummmmm… Let’s get creative.
Paint ball gun is a good place to start
A magnet alone wouldn’t do anything. You’d need an active jammer, which would be illegal. Don’t F with the FCC :)
Put a dab of caulk on the end of a dowel and touch the lens. That would at worst be vandalism, I imagine.
The messiest part would be not getting caught on one of the cameras before, during or after doing the deed.
Please for the love of God don’t do my stupid ideas. I don’t condone any of them.
The most psychopathic thing I can possibly think to do is mix liquid diarrhea from various animals with concrete mix and wear a gorilla suit and just start building shit walls around them with bricks.
The messiest part would be not getting caught on one of the cameras before, during or after doing the deed.
R. C. Cars operated by extenders to the antennas, you could have someone drive one around to take focus off of them and have a printout of a human face in high detail.
You have full arm gloves on and you use contacts and a wig just in case. Could also do a full body gorilla suit with contacts in and have a clip on device near your hands that emits a bleach mist so your finger prints aren’t there. Like spider man’s cartridges but for bleach misting.
Yeah, totally possible to do in an anonymous style, you just need to consider anonymous transport; they have cameras leading up to and away from most places. If they really got their nickers in a wad, they’d ask local businesses and ring cameras for footage. Trying to do something like this is more akin to planning a heist with all the surveillance.
Someone should make a mass loader of like 10,000 bluetooth devices that don’t exist, pre-generated and loaded ready to go and when they scan your device it auto loads 10,000 devices and it overloads the scanner and crashes. Bonus points if the generator is built-in to the device to re-use on other flock cameras after the first hit :P
I’ve seen some tech that searches out hot mirros and blasts them with an intense IR laser to burn out the sensors. Of course by then, they already have seen your plate.
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If there’s a camera on a roadway they can do ALPR. I’m not saying they do, I’m saying it’s highly possible because cameras have gotten so much better. And the APIs to do the ALPR are getting cheaper.
