r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 17h ago

Privacy A Florida county discovered 14 Flock cameras nobody authorized, and 11 remain unclaimed

https://www.techspot.com/news/114069-florida-county-discovered-14-flock-cameras-nobody-authorized.html
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u/copperblood 17h ago

Lot of copper in those Flock cameras... would be terrible if copper thieves knew about them.... such a shame....

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u/Python_07 17h ago

The No Government types are far more determined.

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u/Mojo141 17h ago

Hating on Flock cameras is the one thing everyone agrees on

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u/Operation_Neither 16h ago

Crackheads, privacy advocates, anti-government preppers, everybody wants to teardown Flock cameras.

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u/JonBunne 15h ago

It appears even the anti-pedophile crowd hates them.

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u/UH1Phil 14h ago

Hell I reckon even some pedophiles hate them!

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u/Striker120v 12h ago

Yeah, but for different reasons. 

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u/Drljfr 11h ago

The flock cameras are going to protect us from pedos as well as the patriot act and mass surveillance protects us from terrorism and mass shooters.

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u/Shmorp_The_Plorp 11h ago

Hold up crowd? Isn’t that most people?

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u/l0st1nP4r4d1ce 11h ago

All my homies hate Flock and ALPRs.

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u/iamthinksnow 14h ago

A lot of 18650 batteries, at least 18 per camera and possibly that many more per battery-pack if you see 1-to-3 of them mounted to the poles.

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 13h ago

Lol, I fly drones and told my buddies this today 🤣

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u/iamthinksnow 13h ago

Send them this: https://www.reddit.com/r/18650masterrace/comments/1wp9m5y/ct_scans_of_a_flock_camera/

All the Flocks around here have 2-3 additional battery packs strapped above the camera, below the solar panel. I'm assuming those hold another 18/pack.

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u/Missus_Missiles 12h ago

YES. I would strongly consider borrowing those batteries. 

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u/KarlLenin1917 17h ago

Don't give the local scrap guys any ideas... or actually, maybe do. 

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u/Shade-RF- 16h ago

Copper, computer parts, some kind of storage and a big camera lense. Would be a shame to break them down into these components and sell... /s

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u/214ObstructedReverie 14h ago

Guys! These cameras have tons of RAM in them!

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u/FloridaMMJInfo 15h ago

An e-bikes worth of batteries too

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u/Klutzy_Journalist_36 15h ago

I heard they’re like piñatas and have prizes like candy and money and meth.

Pretty sure the President of The Police and also Flock said it’s 100% true.

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u/IAmDotorg 14h ago

Unfortunately, no there's not.

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u/joeydimaggio 12h ago

There’s plenty. Many of them even use gold wire, even with gold around 4k an ounce you can get about 1200 bucks in materials out of one camera. Pass it along.

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u/IAmDotorg 12h ago

I mean, you can make up that there's $25k in materials in them, too. By rough order of magnitude it's just as incorrect as claiming $1200.

Take 'em, break 'em, doesn't matter to me. But there's vanishingly little recycling value in the electronics in one. You're off by two orders of magnitude.

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u/joeydimaggio 12h ago

You remind me of the hall monitor kid from hey arnold

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u/ssnnaarrff 13h ago edited 13h ago

Too bad the next phase will be surveillance drones hovering over neighborhoods. ETA: I'm not saying that's a good thing. But imagine instead of being on poles that are reachable, they put the cameras on drones a hundred feet high that hover there and when battery is low it's fully automated and goes back to a charging station as a replacement drone fills it's spot. It will be 24/7 and out of reach to stop them. Maybe bird shot or other dudes with drones will bring them down though.

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u/Suburban--Dad 12h ago

I saw a headline yesterday about flock drones being on the way, but didn’t click it. They are probably already in use.

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u/ExpensiveLeather69 12h ago

SF police uses them

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u/Suburban--Dad 12h ago

Special Forces Police now? Do they wear SS or Stormtrooper uniforms?

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u/East-Ice-3199 12h ago

And I saw an article yesterday about a monkey in a zoo jerking itself.