Fun fact: lots of them have exposed cables that should not be cut with a long arm pruning pole found in your grandmother’s shed.
Another thing you should never ever do: mix paint and dot3 in a handheld pressurized garden poison sprayer.
Why not?
Because that would be illegal, and advice easy-to-acess ways to sabotage fascism should not be shared anywhere.
Good.
I just learned HGTV has a Jan 7 2026 show called “Neighborhood Watch”. It’s like America’s Funniest Home Videos, but it’s all doorbell/security cameras. User-submitted, I think. I absolutely refuse to believe this was a casual idea from HGTV as they struggle to maintain viewership. There’s no way this isn’t funded by one of these companies, meant to continue making everyone comfortable with constant surveillance and increasing the desire to have constant recording devices to catch these one-off comedic moments.
Tagline: “Everywhere you go, cameras are recording. Your neighbors are watching.”
Fuck centralized surveillance.
I would like to have a brief discussion with whoever downvoted you.
That’s the beauty of downvotes: no f-ing context on why people disagree with you or if they even do and are just holding a vendetta from somewhere else, since they aren’t forced to indicate why.
The account enjoys making a lot of very questionably inconsistent downvotes over their far fewer upvotes and even comments their own suggestion on how to sabotage Flock surveillance cameras in the thread yet doesn’t seem to be an edgelord in their own comments, so who knows. Unlike upvoting, where you presumably agree with a comment, downvoting provides no context as you have no clue why or how much they disagreed with something. Presumably the statement was too simplistic to resonate with their refined tastes, which to avoid the downvote should presumably have been stated with the collection of words they would favor as an argument, if they ever bothered to make it.
Powerfull hand held lasers can damage cameras, by pointing the laser at the lens.
Careful with reflections though!
Benn Jordan has done great videos on this stuff
Yeah, I was actually thinking about acquiring one myself. I want to dissect it, hook it up to some monitoring equipment/ software, see what I can learn about it… functionality, vulnerability, anything. But I’m also worried about the potential I accidentally show up on a video feed stored somewhere remote. I’ve been checking eBay for them, but honestly… there are several right by my home. We’ll see what happens, in time.
I’d recommend caution. No idea if these things have a built in GPS, but I wouldn’t be surprised considering how easy/cheap it is for electronics hobbyists to add GPS functionality to their projects. Take it home and fire it up and you may potentially be telling the gestapo right where you live.
Would a pellet gun be powerful enough to damage the lens from a distance?
This is 'muricha you can use 9mm \s
How about a nice coat of paint or a nice coat of rhino liner.
Most of them in my area are about 25 feet / 8 meters up in the air.
Gonna take some dedication and planning and a gas powered cut off saw.
The answer is almost certainly, but the followup question is how much pellet gun?
This seems to be a valid self-defence tactic. Grinder, large bumper with a push bar, what ever it takes to drop the device. Truck Bros can back up to the pole and push. They are designed to break away after all
Yeah, give them a nice clear picture of your license plate as it tumbles down…broadcast right to their servers
We had a guy here who stole a plate of a cop car and drove through a speed enforcement camera to the tune of $6000 worth of fines to the cop car. Not saying you should do anything like that but you have to respect his hustle
If only there were some way to temporarily cover up the license plate.
Well, the CEO did openly invite and approve of this. In his own words, Flock cameras aren’t forced on anyone. So the only logical conclusion is to destroy them if so desired.
Anyone know of a good form letter / well written petition to request an operator such as an hoa remove a flock camera before resorting tk this?
Lol. HOAs are on a strict boot-based diet. Any well-reasoned argument will just make them install MORE of them.
Also: I really want to introduce the neologism caligavore. Can we all make that a thing?
If you go this route, you’ll be suspect #1 if anyone else ever takes more aggressive defensive measures against the cameras.
This behavior from companies is so predictable that I’m perpetually disappointed in my fellow human beings for ever buying this equipment.
There are a lot of people in positions of power whos paychecks rely on them not understanding things.
There’s one a block from my house, and three blocks from my work, so they can see me coming and going each direction.
…BRB
There’s two on each of the roads to my favorite local freeway and there’s two in the parking lot of my local hardware store
Is there a common quadcopter on the market capable of carrying a paintball gun or something else that can splatter lenses?
Another, lower tech option that gets the job done.
With a radio control drone you, your face and your smart phone can be a quarter mile away. Plus, have you been in aerial combat? I haven’t. Yet.
This is exactly what this company deserves, to be smashed out of business and history.
Reminder: If you destroy a camera, be aware that other cameras in the area may be recording you as well. Protect your identity.
Leave your fucking phone at home too.
Faraday bags work… But test them.
I got a cheapo $7 Chromebook sized bag that seemed to work for my SOs iphone. We don’t use NFC so I couldn’t test that.
No BT, WiFi, or Cell, and probably no GPS.
I only did casual testing.
The screen still showed the signal having low bars for WiFi and cellular, but it didn’t actually receive a signal at all when trying to call or use the net, not even with the top of the bag open a sliver and my hand in there.
If the device was off or in airplane mode and in the bag, I’d be comfortable assuming it was safely hidden from tracking.
I haven’t thoroughly tested my various personal devices, but I expect identical results.
I think everyone should probably have a bag like this around, in a go-bag or something, just in case. And it’s safer to have your phone available than not, as long as it’s secure (use a pin or password to lock it, use encryption, put emergency info on it for first responders).
If you’re going to use a Faraday bag, use it regularly, like every day at random times.
Imagine you are being accused of a crime. The crime occured at 8pm. The phone records show that your phone went dark at your house 7pm and then reconnected at 9pm at your house. The crime scene is 1 hour away from your home by foot. Records show this is the only time your phone went dark in a very long time.
So if you bag your phone (aluminium foil bags work pretty good too), do it regularly, randomly, and don’t bag it and unbag it immediately before leaving or after getting home
