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.”
Benn Jordan has done great videos on this stuff
Powerfull hand held lasers can damage cameras, by pointing the laser at the lens.
Fuck centralized surveillance.
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.
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.
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.
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
Just gonna leave this here for anyone so inclined
Yeah I’m based in one of the highest density ALPR regions in the country, this would just be going off constantly lol
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.
