• FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    Stealing them is felony grand theft.

    Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).

    If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.

    If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.

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    2 months ago

    Any RAM or storage in those things? That solar panel looks useful.

  • SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world
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    Ive thought about getting a stick with a cardboard sign that says fuck flock and putting it right in front of all the cameras around me that i know of

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    I could’ve sworn 2 weeks ago there was an article about people breaking into them to steal the wires and components.

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    ANYTHING cloud-connected - your doorbell, your security system, even all f**king post-2006 vehicles, regardless of manufacturer - are suspect.

    And are highly likely to be actually spying on you.

    I’ve been working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. The proportion of average people who don’t realize how much of their stuff is exposing them, and by how much, is frankly astounding. It’s almost 100% of normies who are woefully ignorant. Even IT people who have no clue is in the majority.

    And the security on this stuff that tracks you tends to be - except in rare circumstances - absolute dogshite. Sometimes it comes without any security at all, such as all devices sold having admin creds baked in, or all remote-access credentials being identical and non-user-editable.

    This is why almost all of my stuff is hardlined, I have no IoT devices at all, and the wifi for my family’s devices is physically separate from everything else.

    Don’t get me wrong, as IT for almost three decades I love all the new shinies. But I’m not blind, and I’m not stupid.

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      Thank god I just purchased my dream car, a 2002 Lexus. Hack that you jabronis. tape deck gang