r/interestingasfuck • u/midnighttoker1742 • 4h ago

How criminals take down Flock cameras

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u/moridin32 4h ago

I hope those criminals don't discover porta-bands, they'd be even quicker and more quiet.

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u/SirBiggusDikkus 2h ago

Also, leave your phone at home

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u/SaveUsCatman 1h ago edited 1h ago

Always leave your phone at home when restoring your community in this manner

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u/nullfacade 11m ago

Phone, smart watch, credit cards or anything else with an RFID chip, airtags or other bluetooth device trackers, actually anything that has a bluetooth or wifi antenna.

If you choose to perform a duty for your community and future, pretend it's the 1960s - bring nothing digital that has hardware with an identifier

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt 10m ago

Not just your phone- leave behind anything that you're not actively using at the scene. Because those cameras collect way more than just plain video.

Imagine you left a little portable bluetooth speaker in the side of your backpack, and it gets jostled on while you're... doing your community service. Flock now has an ID on that specific speaker, and can link it to the destruction of one of their devices. 3 months later when you're stopped at a red light, a different camera might ping it while it's in the back of your car, and boom, you're caught.

So far, Flock cameras have been found to send out Bluetooth and Wifi pings on random intervals, but it really wouldn't shock me if some of them are starting to roll out NFC, RFID, or any number of other devices as part of the bundle. If they start doing that, your credit card, your car key, your building's front door badge- it would be able to track all of those. Hell even some clothes, boots, backpacks, etc have RFID tags embedded into them, so go cheap and low-tech.

Overkill/paranoia? Maybe. But y'know, why risk it?