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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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There's one of those right outside my neighborhood, and I'm not sure what to do with it.
Have you seen Cool Hand Luke?
I bet it's not too hard to cover it in paintballs or find a way to make it fall off a pole
I wonder if lasers ruin them like older cameras?
Bullet through the battery should be pretty effective. Surely they are lithium batteries. They catch fire if they get a hole in 'em.
If you get a big enough laser, anything is possible.
People in my neighborhood constantly cut speed cameras down every other week, do with this as you will.
Not much within the legal window. Maybe petition for its removal.
Unrelated, but I believe an axe and a mask usually work pretty well on most electronic devices. Driving out of town, walking back in on a non flock path, ensuring you have a “limp” as well as non descriptive/logoless clothes, and ensuring you have no devices on you, are all great general opsec tips as well.
In other places, people have done all sorts of legal things in front of ALPRs, from presenting them with a steady stream of license plate photos of law enforcement vehicles from out of state, to putting on plays, dance performances and other forms of entertainment in front of them and then submitting FOIA requests for the footage since they’re being consumed (indirectly) by the government. In states that have actual privacy laws, people are requesting all information Flock has on them from the company in order to verify that it is accurate. In some places, they can even require removal.
They live in their own paranoid delusional world where everyone is out to get them and they are the heroes between bad and good.
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Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harm’s way.
Why not both?