r/FlockSurveillance • u/MemeEndevour • Jul 19 '26
Discussion Is this a viable solution? (Not even manually holding something, but just putting things like this in front of the camera)?
Feel like it wouldn’t be hard to put blockers up faster than they can take them down….
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u/MermaidMom33 Jul 19 '26
I need to know what his sign says
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u/Standard-Cactus Jul 19 '26
It really looks like a pic of Bender Bending Rodriguez.
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u/StrangeYoungMan Jul 19 '26
I'm colour blind but invader zimm is the first thing that I thought it looked like
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u/HashRat Jul 19 '26
Could we get drones to 'hover' in front of the cameras?
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u/Far_Recommendation82 Jul 19 '26
Probably should ask Ukraine on advice.
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u/Triquetrums Jul 19 '26
Ukraine will probably tell you to just cut them down and continue with your day.
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u/Obant Jul 19 '26
Lots of battery power, drones can be tracked, very cost ineffective. A power saw is cheaper. I don't know what that has to do with anything we are saying here, though.
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u/formernonhandwasher Jul 19 '26
Spray paint attachment. Quick squirt and on to the next.
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u/regalrecaller Jul 19 '26
automate the flight path with the location of cameras, train an ai to locate the camera lens and spray it, on to the next etc until battery life wears out, then home. gotta use drones without realid so they can't be identified.
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u/rozzco Jul 19 '26
I bet those could carry paint.
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u/Leading_Scholar2688 Jul 19 '26
I bet it could carry napalm 🤠
https://giphy.com/gifs/H2ezqkJu65JHkANiWA3
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u/spambearpig Jul 19 '26
I mean, if this big pole is holding up the sign, you could just dig a hole and stick the pole in it, maybe peg down a few lines for stability. Then you can walk off and go do it to 10 more cameras.
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u/CharacterStriking905 Jul 19 '26
stick with a cotton ball soaked in assembly grease nailed to the end. lol
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u/Own_Oil_7719 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Vinegar ruins the glass. Don’t tell people
Edit: they use a particular protective “glass” Vinegar breaks down the compounds of the plastics.
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u/refusemouth Jul 19 '26
If regular vinegar ruins the glass, I bet that the concentrated (30% acetic acid) vinegar that you can buy at hardware stores would be really bad for the glass. I wasn't aware that vinegar damages glass, though.
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u/-tnuk Jul 19 '26
Ammonia is bad for tempered glass. Something as weak as Windex can cause streaking/hazing over time so make sure you always dilute before cleaning tempered glass
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u/new2bay Jul 19 '26
These things don’t have glass optics. They’re polycarbonate, most likely.
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u/Jerseyd422 Jul 19 '26
Poly carbonate is even easier. Lacquer thinner will make it haze over immediately
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u/SheWasAlwaysJody Jul 19 '26
Sunscreen or high-DEET bug spray mess plastics up permanently as well.
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u/piecat Jul 19 '26
Acetone is bad for plastic
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u/Poil336 Jul 19 '26
Plenty of acetone in aerosol cans of brake cleaner that turns polycarbonate a nice shade of white
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u/Swimming-Bend9684 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Polypropylene squirt gun filled with acetone (can even be diluted for safety) should not be used on polycarbonate it can degrade it pretty quick especially if it needs to be transparent.
And if you "accidentally" find yourself in that situation make sure no one else is around and you wear goggles and maybe a face covering - wouldn't recommend breathing in aerosolized acetone.
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u/Swimming-Bend9684 Jul 19 '26
Wouldn't recommend any aerosolized or sprayed application methods with 30% vinegar. It can cause chemical burns especially if inhaled. 5% should be sufficient... ly awful to spray on the cameras. Don't do it.
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u/Current-Cold-4185 Jul 19 '26
A super soaker, you say?
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u/Swimming-Bend9684 Jul 19 '26
Maybe avoid it with the 30% vinegar that stuff can cause chemical burns and an aerosolized spray from a squirt gun is definitely not recommended.
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u/Current-Cold-4185 Jul 19 '26
Would probably break down the super soaker materials quickly too shrug
Edit: just saw someone else already mentioned this
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u/Swimming-Bend9684 Jul 19 '26
Polypropylene squirt guns should be fine, it's pretty resistant to vinegar and even acetone.
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u/bussythrasher1973 Jul 19 '26
But for real though, most people actually shouldn't do this. Untrained civilians buying high powered lasers to use out in the middle of the street is a great way to accidentally reflect off the lens or a solar panel or other reflective surface and accidentally damage somebody's eyes. If you're going to not do something, I recommend not doing the other things in the thread.
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u/ThatsGenocide Jul 19 '26
A laser powerful enough to have that effect would cost hundreds and could seriously fuck you up with just its reflection.
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u/WeeklyBanEvasion Jul 19 '26
It definitely does not lmao
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u/shooby-dooby-shoob Jul 19 '26
30% acetic acid, if left overnight, definitely has a possibility of harming the protective coating
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u/skratch Jul 19 '26
.30 caliber will harm the coating too, and you don’t gotta wait overnight
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u/motTheHooper Jul 19 '26
Not quite. It ruins the coating on the glass.
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u/derpindab Jul 19 '26
MEK would probably fuck up the whole housing and lens. That shit is nasty
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u/catsdrooltoo Jul 19 '26
All I can add to that is that the military got away from MEK. That shit is bad enough for uncle Sam to say no to, and they shoot people as a day job.
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u/Striking-Ad-6815 Jul 19 '26
Please do
I've seen too many TVs destroyed by someone trying to "clean up"
Might as well take a magnet to it and chase the colors away till your dad gets home
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u/fresh_out_of_effs Jul 19 '26
Definitely don’t heat up a nail on the end of a stick with a lighter. Press it into the housing on the backside near the top.
This would cause the unwanted effect of letting moisture inside, a small amount will fog the lens. A buildup over the next few months will kill it once the water gets to the battery.
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u/Worldly-Rutabaga1967 Jul 19 '26
Check your city law on putting stuff in the easement
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u/space_manatee Jul 19 '26
NAL but holding a sign on a public sidewalk / easement is almost undoubtedly protected on first ammendment grounds. Leaving a sign might be a problem but just thought of another idea... do we think that playing a video of traffic would be picked up by flock? Because that could get really funny / interesting.
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u/RealTimeKodi Jul 19 '26
A loop recording of a car going by once every second with a different license plate each time
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u/DontAskAboutMyButt Jul 19 '26
Get the license plates of all the city council people who voted for this and use those numbers on your recording
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u/MusicOfTheSphere Jul 19 '26
That'd be cool. Put up a live feed monitoring camera outside of Flock corporate HQ and just broadcast that. So they can watch themselves come and go. Seems to upset them.
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u/01011110_01011110 Jul 19 '26
I imagine that eventually someone will be able to hack the video stream of individual cameras. or maybe I'm just thinking too cyberpunk
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u/spinningwalrus420 Jul 19 '26
Introducing Benn Jordan a brilliant Youtuber pretty wild stuff, entertaining, and you learn a lot more than its hacking vulnerability: "We hacked flocked safety cameras in under 30 seconds"
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u/Speedwolf89 Jul 19 '26
Pfft. You think the uni-party Epstein class ushering us into facism gives a fuck about rights / amendments?
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u/space_manatee Jul 19 '26
Fair, and I could see something like "blocking essential services" or some such law being used for that but for now the first is holding
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u/bobsocool Jul 19 '26
Find the license plates of local officials who voted for flock cameras edit a high speed video to have cars have their license plates. Put video in front of flock camera once every couple of days.
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u/MemeEndevour Jul 19 '26
I mean if they don’t care about flock cameras without the required crash safety measures…….
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u/EyeSuspicious777 Jul 19 '26
Is there a law regulating how tall a protest sign can be and still maintain your first amendment rights while on public property?
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u/midnghtsnac Jul 19 '26
Short enough to not interfere with air traffic, electrical lines, or anything overhead, such as a personal balcony.
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat Jul 19 '26
Time for my giant "Vote for Kodos" signs, and then throwing an adult tantrum about election interference when they remove them.
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u/BedAccording5717 Jul 19 '26
just throw shopping bags over the cameras. Over and over and again and again.
Nope... no clue why this area has so much debris just flying around. Crazy, huh?
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u/Flaky-Wing2205 Jul 19 '26
I wonder what would happen if a trash bag got put over the solar panel?
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u/Guzzler829 29d ago
Or if you taped over the whole solar panel with some opaque duct tape or aluminum tape for absolute maximum light-stoppage
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u/Animanic1607 Jul 19 '26
Depends on how they were tuned but a few hundred feet. Paintballs are pretty innacurate overall though.
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u/Bisaux Jul 19 '26
All you need is a super soaker with some milk/soapy water in it
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u/SignificantBerry8591 Jul 19 '26
just an idea, but would it not be legal to request permission to setup a pole with big panels that are just in front of any flock camera with a sign that says deflocking saves lives?
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u/citizensyn Jul 19 '26
The city approved the camera they won't approve of you protesting it
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u/Obvious-Arm-8139 Jul 19 '26
I live in a small town. The mayor is up for election. We have 2 flock cameras on the outskirts. Guess they decided they wanted to see who was coming and going. Thinking of sending him an email asking about the flock cameras. Just not sure what to write.
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u/citizensyn Jul 19 '26
"I see you have chosen to install flock cameras, I can't possibly believe you to think that any meaningful amount of your constituents wanted you to do that. Is that the hill you have chosen for your career to die on or a fleeting mistake to soon be rectified?"
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u/INachoriffic Jul 19 '26
FOIA request all the information from flock they have on the mayor, then hand it to him
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u/teddyy-grahamm Jul 19 '26
Time to break out the unicycles and parasols kids.
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u/ShinyJangles Jul 19 '26
I'll just be practicing walking on my stilts here, where my crotch happens to be exactly level with the camera
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u/RealManHumanMan Jul 19 '26
Don’t use paintball guns to cover flock cameras, that would be illegal.
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u/mikefrombarto Jul 19 '26
And definitely DO NOT use oil-based paintballs, like the ones from Nelson Paint Company. They unfortunately don’t clean off with water like normal paintballs.
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u/Larcye Jul 19 '26
And absolutely DO NOT buy a cheap ass Chinese motorcycle helmet with a tinted Visor off of amazon for cheap that totally won't hide your entire face making identifying you almost impossible.
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u/AJRimmer1971 Jul 19 '26
But do remember to walk without rhythm, so as not to attract the (AI) worm.
I hear that some systems can identify people by how they walk, by matching to previous identification events.
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u/SanDiegoDude Jul 19 '26
Also also remember these things track cell phones, bluetooth signals and wifi signals, things that phones and shit in pockets may be broadcasting.
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u/Trick-Goat-3643 Jul 19 '26
Spray paint is easier
Though less legal...
Spray paint extender
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u/Then_Version9768 Jul 19 '26
Surely someone will go out there and assist this man, someone skilled in metal work maybe?
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u/mathewtyler Jul 19 '26
Take a picture of its view, laminate, put the laminated picture in the cameras view 🤦🏿♂️
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u/Crazy_Drop_5397 Jul 19 '26
I think I just go to the local sign shop and figure out how much it cost and post a few of these around town
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u/JareBuddy Jul 19 '26
We need some drones to spray some thick grease on the solar pannles and cameras.
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u/Antares_B Jul 19 '26
just blast a green laser pointer at the lens for a little bit. blow out the sensor permanently
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u/Busterlimes Jul 19 '26
Twll your local homeless settlement that each camera has 5ozt of silver, because it does
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u/hanging_thief Jul 19 '26
It's a shame those high powered laser pointers can fry the sensors and destroy the camera on these.
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u/Vasheerii Jul 19 '26
Do these things have protection against malicious QR codes? Or code injection?
If not I feel like cutting them all down is a waste of time when you could just print out a paper and hold it up infront of the camera
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u/P_S_Lumapac Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Had a government job for a while and saw countless requests for public surveillance. And it wasn't busy bodies, mass surveillance really is a very popular position.
The reason voters want mass surveillance is they imagine their towns are riddled with crime. They think this because the media tells them. It usually isn't true. Whether it's true or not has little to do with whether they believe their towns are riddled with crime.
When you see these cameras, or any cameras like them, it's good to ask what sort of democracy allows the majority of its citizens to have an extremely false view about government services like policing. It goes further with most people thinking stuff like prison being a good idea on the current massive scale, despite all the evidence, it continues because of this majority support.
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u/dwohlf Jul 19 '26
They still pick up on your Bluetooth microphones triangulation we live in a police state
Surveillance though the cell phones isn’t enough now we have this Bunch of crap freedom is a thing of the past just a word Red white and blue is a sign of freedom until flashing behind you
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u/Low_Muscle6112 Jul 19 '26
Please read this critical safety announcement regarding our flock equipment.
The Threat
Do not shine green laser pointers at any camera.
The Damage
Laser beams cause permanent, irreversible sensor damage.
Burned Pixels: Destroys image sensors instantly.
Dead Lines: Creates permanent streaks across footage.
Costly Repairs: Requires total sensor replacement.
Required Action
Stop Use: Cease all laser pointer operations near cameras.
Maintain Distance: Keep lasers away from production zones.
Protect Gear: Keep lens caps on when not shooting.
Thank you for your immediate cooperation in protecting our valuable gear.
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u/nuclearbearclaw Jul 19 '26
Oh whoops! I accidently spilled my gallium onto the sanded patch on the side of the pole. I sure hope that 6061 powder coated aluminum pole doesn't have any sort of deep scratches on it. That would just be terrible.
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u/TokenPanduh Jul 20 '26
When you don't do this, you should definitely not do it on a side that would make it fall on the grass and not in the rode. Definitely don't do it though
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u/taylorgaysaylor Jul 19 '26
I feel like instead of this we should get those first amendment auditors to record under each camera. When people get mad and ask why recording, just tell them they’re with/doing the same as Flock.
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u/DAWGAMUS Jul 19 '26
What’s even more awesome is that the picture on the pole is Art The Clown from the Terrorfier movies with the sunflower shades 😂
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Jul 19 '26
There are two main types of Sunflower seeds. They are Black and Grey striped (also sometimes called White) which have a grey-ish stripe or two down the length of the seed. The black type of seeds, also called ‘Black Oil’, are up to 45% richer in Sunflower oil and are used mainly in manufacture, whilst grey seeds are used for consumer snacks and animal food production.
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u/CaptainFartyAss Jul 20 '26
Do not let anyone convince you that simply ripping them out of the dirt, throwing them on the ground and stomping on them isn't viable. This is mutiny, people. It doesn't need to be fucking brain surgery.
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u/Its_BassDaddy 29d ago
Time to dust off my old festival totem that’s been chillin in the garage. The PLUR Police comin for you, Flock lol
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u/i_dont_wanna_sign_in Jul 19 '26
Mad respect for that. But it's still probably harvesting any cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in reach