They're dying for an honorable cause. /s

What would brake fluid do?

Do comments around here get disappeared or hidden if they get enough downvotes? If not, then I could give two fucks whether a comment gets 1 downvote or 100.

Thank you for saying "jerry rig" and not "jury rig". I looselose my shit everytime I "hear it".

Heartwarming.

Good. We need to teach these pigs a lesson

Sometimes my big finger hit the wrong button.

Some of them certainly are. You can also get air rifles with built in "moderators" (i.e. suppressors) that are surprisingly quiet. Precharged pneumatic air rifles can be very powerful and also extremely accurate. I have a relatively cheap Hatsan that can, provided I'm using pellets that it likes, repeatably put pellets through the same hole in my target from as far away as I can get from it in my yard (probably about 20 yards) and do so about 30 times in succession before I have to pump it back up again. Its built in moderator makes it quiet enough at the muzzle that the sound of the hammer hitting the gas valve is actually louder than the report from firing.

Watch out: Researching this type of thing may send you tumbling down the rabbit hole of big bore air rifles and entice you to spend a lot of money. Don't say I didn't warn you...

As I’ve got to dash

Thins the paint's viscosity down maybe?

How would I go about finding a Flock camera?

Deflock.me

Waaaaay easier and cheaper to replace the lenses than a whole pole, including everything that was on it. And I think an angle grinder with some disks would cost about as much as a paintball gun with permanent ink ammo, and the former being much more bang for your buck in terms of damage done and also use other than for this.

based

Big bore pcp air guns - for those who like things that go fwump.

People want surveillance options. One of the highest/most obvious features required, unsurprisingly, is the ability to see your cameras on your smart phone -- which generally means you need a Smartphone App + a centralised server/system connecting the different ends. The alternative being that end users would likely need static IP addresses / Dynamic DNS setups to have a Smartphone app point "directly" to their exposed CCTV ports -- which I don't imagine regular consumers are keen on, likely why basically no such options seem to exist in the retail space (afaik - if there are widely used brands i dont know about, by all means clue me in).

Options that are fully local/closed/under user control, are almost impossible to find. This isn't so much a consumer-specific problem, from my perspective, at this point -- there aren't enough options for consumers to choose differently. It's sorta like how you're generally 'stuck' with US-tethered Smartphones. It's not so much a 'choice' that consumers get to make, as it is that these big businesses have effective monopolies and consumers are stuck.

They’ve already been analyzed and their security is atrocious. It’s ancient android nonsense. It’s theoretically possible to break into the wirelessly, that’s how bad these are.

The whole thing is about grabbing as much data as fast as thy can. There’s damn near nothing keeping it restricted or secure. Might as well be an open IP cam on the internet.

You can get the same thing cheaper via Craigslist and they’ll have a harder time tracing ownership. A crackhead hawking stolen hardware store crap is not going to really be as helpful to the surveillance state as they’d like.

That’s why you do this as part of a massive crowd of people that don’t know eachother. Overwhelm them.

Bring laser pointers to protests

https://youtu.be/HasaQvHCv4w

https://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com/

The fun part is that these cameras are not owned, operated or property of your local jurisdiction. They are hardware/software as a service. IANAL, but I think Flock would have to sue you.

I have not personally de-flocked anything, but my local area doesn't have any that aren't tied to a business parking lot.

If some show up, I can't imagine a 5 minute walk with a hat, face mask and a can of spraypaint wouldn't be sufficient to disable one without risk. Might need a stool.

Hit the gas!

Nice catch, defiantly kinda (almost) works here too... 😤

They give zero fucks about you doing that. Sue them instead. And recycle that shit.

Hell yeah brother

Just like everyone is quitting facebook, ChatGPT, and all the other things people are boycotting that seem to never have anything happen to them.

But the way this are repaired and replaced, one ability to damage or obstructe the camera quickly and without being noticed is going to be the most important thing. Ankle grinding on a poll for 2 min isn't ideal. What is the camera isn't mounted on a poll? The result is going to be a technician coming out and installing a new camera. Swing back around a couple well placed shots from 50 years away. Beats having to spend another 2min with a grinder.

Don't be rediculous.

Permanently remove that camera. They can always put up another. Inking the leanse or dome will still require I new camera installed. Actually shooting the camera with a real gun is probably the best option.

Already deleted my FB. Instagram is getting close with how many "suggested" posts they cram into my feed that should be just my friends.

Not sure the lemmy crowd is representative of the general public trends.

Yep and don't forget people, those stray reflections may not only be hitting you. Be aware of your surroundings.

I vandalized my own Ring cameras. It didn't feel right to resell them just so they can spy on me from someone else's front porch.

I don't know. I'm not a wizard

Why would you get upset at jury rig? It's the original term and older than jerry rig.

Most likely not.

What are the chances that it's NOT a porn site?

A city near me has installed a device that tracks vehicles based on their tpms (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) sensors.

All cars after 2008 in the US have TPMS. Inside the tire, integrated with the vale stem, are little pressure sensors with a radio that broadcasts on the 315Mhz band. Each one uses a slightly different frequency so that your vehicle can tell which of the four tires is low.

So each vehicle in the US made after 2008 has four unique radio signals being broadcast from it, and now there are police departments with equipment that can track those signals, and can assign each car a signature based on the frequencies the sensors are broadcasting on.

Be brave, my random Internet friend. Click the link. It's either the info you want, or it's titties.

I suppose we could make Flock feeds into porn sites...

That's alarming, but how much can these really vary? I'd be surprised if a lot of vehicles weren't the same.

The shitty part is it's your tax dollars you're smashing, but you'd think they'd get the hint and just give up on it.

Oh man. Silent rifle that can damage those cameras from 20 yards. Wow.

Hm... Does anyone know if the glass it uses is tough like gorilla glass?

Sacrificing what you want is the option.

Well, from my knowledge, the person you replied to is inaccurate. All tires will transmit at the same frequency. But every X seconds, when each tire transmits its data, it transmits an ID unique to its transmitter with it.

Brake fluid would etch the glass of the lenses. Cleaning the surface wouldn't return the camera to service. Better than paint would be any other substance to thin out the brake fluid for application, particularly if it were less noticeable than paint. That would cause the repair order to come in from lost data collection rather than a report of vandalism, denying them creeping time and that sweet, sweet data. Definitely don't do that.

I was sorely disappointed to learn that the site did contain titties

Every X seconds is pretty generous. My Subaru only seems to poll the sensors every few minutes, and only when the wheel speed is above 35 MPH or so, at least via what I've observed with my diagnostic tool. The sensors are battery powered and I suspect the low refresh rate is a deliberate gambit to conserve battery life.

You are correct on the ID point, though. They can contain up to 16 hexidecimal digits as far as I've seen, and while there doesn't seem to be any mechanism for truly enforcing uniqueness the chances of an ID collision are so low that you may as well consider it impossible. Some aftermarket sensors can be wirelessly reprogrammed with an arbitrary ID, though, which may be of marginal utility for the truly paranoid. (My diagnostic tool can do this, too. The intended use case is cloning the ID from an OEM sensor for a car whose TPMS relearn procedure is more trouble than it's worth.)

Regardless of your vehicle's polling frequency, most sensors can be woken up any time by a specific radio pulse, which my diagnostic tool can also do, and the range is surprisingly long. Just my car's own BMS where the receiver is (above the rear left wheel well) can pick up the sensors in my snow tire rims even when said rims are sitting in their storage rack inside my garage, about three car lengths away.

What you described as impossible to find is how basically every security DVR system has worked for decades. I have two Lorex branded boxes at work and a Night Owl one at home, and neither of them require anyone's "cloud."

They're remotely accessible via your browser or a smartphone app although, yes, you do need to know your public facing IP address and poke the appropriate hole in your firewall for it.