Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie Why do tech people always reach for a tech solution?
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie well, the camera at least.
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
I share this information for no reason at all.
I wonder if, hypotethically and only for educational purposes, of course, if instead of covering the lens with an opaque cover it would be more effective to cover it with something that distorts the image it sees instead -- like a fog filter, or a pane of glass smeared with vaseline or similar. Something that might not be immediately apparent when looking at the output.
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@mathowie I am not American so didn't pick up on the Flock camera controversy until recently. I'm missing the background. Why are they so much more of a problem then speed cameras deployed all over Europe? Is it because they are privately owned and operated for profit rather than installed by police/local govt?
@pthane @mathowie they contain high tech wireless tracking technology which can identify you by your phone and track individuals in their cars without the camera feature at all. Wifi mac addresses, bluetooth, cellular, anything identifiable wiill be tracked and assigned to a particular person's profile. Then there's the fact of how often these systems are wrong. Especially if your skin isn't white, because the training data was was overwhelmingly white people. Many people have faced police action and false incarceration when a flock camera in another state claims that someone who doesn't even live there has committed a crime and the police act before verifying. All kinds of "problems" which are actually features.
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@pthane @mathowie they contain high tech wireless tracking technology which can identify you by your phone and track individuals in their cars without the camera feature at all. Wifi mac addresses, bluetooth, cellular, anything identifiable wiill be tracked and assigned to a particular person's profile. Then there's the fact of how often these systems are wrong. Especially if your skin isn't white, because the training data was was overwhelmingly white people. Many people have faced police action and false incarceration when a flock camera in another state claims that someone who doesn't even live there has committed a crime and the police act before verifying. All kinds of "problems" which are actually features.
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@LukefromDC @mathowie Thanks. So it's the date retention and misuse that's the problem.
@pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie This has been going on for ages with people using public transport, but since they are lower on the social ladder, it hasn’t been seen as much of a problem.
But this messes with car people, and boy shouldn’t you mess with car people.
All mass surveillance and data retention from it is bad, but there’s a strong smell of privilege over this outrage.
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie that also looks like a good piece to mix slow curing resin in. How you dispose of it is up to you, but that curved bowl part looks ideal
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie Leave your electronics behind. Flock cameras now track phones, smart watches, ear buds, or any other tech device with a radio
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
I share this information for no reason at all.
@mathowie “Let's say you want to go skinny dipping in your pool but don't want your camera to record you because you can't trust cloud providers to not have a data leak and then have your junk on the internet.”
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie it's important to help weatherproof them, after all!
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@pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie This has been going on for ages with people using public transport, but since they are lower on the social ladder, it hasn’t been seen as much of a problem.
But this messes with car people, and boy shouldn’t you mess with car people.
All mass surveillance and data retention from it is bad, but there’s a strong smell of privilege over this outrage.
@ahltorp @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie you're not wrong, but I suspect in this case you're going to catch more flies with "also" than with "but"... it seems like a good time to ensure that people include transit surveillance in their understanding of the problem
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@mathowie “Let's say you want to go skinny dipping in your pool but don't want your camera to record you because you can't trust cloud providers to not have a data leak and then have your junk on the internet.”
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@ahltorp @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie you're not wrong, but I suspect in this case you're going to catch more flies with "also" than with "but"... it seems like a good time to ensure that people include transit surveillance in their understanding of the problem
@joepie91 @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie I’m not saying the outrage is wrong, just that they didn’t show up when only less privileged people were affected. And let’s face it, nothing is going to get car people to care about pedestrians, cyclists or public transport users.
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@joepie91 @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie I’m not saying the outrage is wrong, just that they didn’t show up when only less privileged people were affected. And let’s face it, nothing is going to get car people to care about pedestrians, cyclists or public transport users.
@ahltorp @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie well, you do you, but approaching it this way certainly won't make anyone care.
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@LukefromDC @mathowie Thanks. So it's the date retention and misuse that's the problem.
@pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie they have no guardrails for the use either. Every department I’ve heard of that got audited, failed. None of them cared to try and stop abuse. Stalking ex spouses, those spouses new interests, family members, potential love interests, they can search for anyone for any resin and never answer for why. In the movie Men in Black they had tech, Tommy Lee Jones abused it there too.
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@pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie This has been going on for ages with people using public transport, but since they are lower on the social ladder, it hasn’t been seen as much of a problem.
But this messes with car people, and boy shouldn’t you mess with car people.
All mass surveillance and data retention from it is bad, but there’s a strong smell of privilege over this outrage.
@ahltorp @pthane @LukefromDC @mathowie public buses in the US have been recorded for a long time. It was already commonplace enough in 1994 the movie Speed used one in the plot. The person who placed the bomb was watching the bus driver through the camera mounted in the bus. Mass transit stations are some of the heaviest surveilled places too. You’ve been told that you don’t have a choice in public.
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@mathowie I am not American so didn't pick up on the Flock camera controversy until recently. I'm missing the background. Why are they so much more of a problem then speed cameras deployed all over Europe? Is it because they are privately owned and operated for profit rather than installed by police/local govt?
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
I share this information for no reason at all.
@mathowie
but what if someone wants to steal all the precious materials
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
I share this information for no reason at all.
@mathowie boosting to make sure nobody prints them by mistake and installs them without realizing.
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Did you know that 3D printed covers for Flock cameras are easily printed and make cameras inoperable when you plop them on using a pole?
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@mathowie put the goatse photo on the inside.
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