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floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours ago

Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance cameras

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The police say that over the weekend, officers found the poles the cameras were mounted on had been cut down and the cameras were gone. Flock cameras are stirring controversy across the country as they compile license plate and other vehicle details in a national database.
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    They fell down.

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    Obviously it was local drug addicts. They were just desperate for a fix and learned about the high value of all the parts in those cameras. Perhaps I was talking too loudly the other day about the resale value of all the expensive electronics in those Flock cameras.

    Golly gee, I sure hope more junkies don’t find out how much money they could make. It would be a tragedy if junkies all over started stealing those Flock cameras.

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      Junkies won’t fight your revolution for you

      • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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        With him, maybe, though.

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    The flock just migrated.

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    We haven’t seen Mitch McConnell in months.

    I’m just saying…

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    Most likely Winona stole them.

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    Quick question, how are these flock cameras generally connected to the Web?

    Is it via Wi-Fi, perhaps 4g radio?

    What frequencies would one need to jam (completely theoretically) to know that the camera wasn’t able to send back video of a person cutting it down.

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      deleted by creator

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      Benn Jordan has a few videos on them.

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      Get a faraday box instead. Better would be a bag, actually… you can slip it over the top, pull some draw strings to tighten up the bottom.

      Do they make bags that work like faraday boxes?

      Edit: found something close: https://a.co/d/0gUGuVMM

      Edit2: this one looks like you can tie off the bottom better: https://a.co/d/0htiAqX6

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        Something opaque on the solar panel until the batteries die.

      • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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        That would get expensive. Get a roll of heavy duty foil and a roll of metal tape (the kind for duct work). Wrap them in a bag made of doubled up heavy duty foil.

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          Good idea. Dont forget to put your phone in it and give it a call, to see if it’s really blocking signals.

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            It generally does. But even if some signal escapes (like if you had to hurry and do this so it wasn’t perfectly sealed), it wouldn’t be that great a signal so communication would definitely be compromised.

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              Good call.

              Another unreasonably expensive approach would be to paint it into a faraday cage. Maybe it can work to block visuals and comms, and don’t even have to remove the device.

              https://a.co/d/0aU2jhw3

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      Either hardwired (probably not) or sim card 4g/5g phone network.

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    It was me Dio!

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    “We the people” stole your fucking flock cameras.

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      No no, that’s simply not possible - they were at my place having a succulent Chinese meal and watching movies

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      That’s not possible. They were purchased with taxpayer funds.

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        We the people reclaimed our flock cameras.

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    Must’ve been a bear. Lot of bears in Winona.

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      Maybe it was the wind?

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    But I thought Flock prevented theft???

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    I think flock is stealing their own cameras so they can reset them and charge to replace them. There is a clear incentive.

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      This is a conspiracy I can get behind.

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    I have never and I will never see someone cutting down a Flock camera.

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      It’s never our job to assist the police. If they talk to you the only response is “am I being detained”

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      I mean it’s the cameras’ job to keep track of criminals, right? So it’s not my job anymore to give a shit about where they went or what they looked like, surely.

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        Growing up watching Batman and Spiderman be told to leave it to the professionals, I think it might be my job to not interfere by knowing anything.

        My memory has been shot for ten years anyways.

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    Pretty sure it was Spartacus

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    I didn’t see shit, I don’t know shit, I plead the 5th, get out of my doorway

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      I am Spartacus.

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        No; I am Spartacus!

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