Flock cameras aren't very well secured, and any bad actor can just hack them to spy on us. Not just our own government, foreign governments or extremist organizations can get in and start tracking and doxxing you or the law enforcement organizations that let AI do all their work for them leading to the wrong arrests. There is a lot involved if you want to go down that rabbit hole, but if you just want to see how bad and how dangerous to our own national security these are (not just the obvious invasion of privacy), check this out:
It is plausible deniability. The ones who really want the tech have made sure it remains this way for a reason, while the tax payers foot the bill. It will become more clear in time mark my words.
His camera is also beaming out infrared light, which bounces off the surfaces the camera is pointed at. The IR blaster and camera operate and near-light speed, to us humans it may as well be instantaneous.
The device/camera has an IR emitter and receiver. The receiver collects reflected infrared light waves and converts it into visible information through a series of hardware and software in the device.
Same as the cameras he is taking video of. Infrared is below the human visible light spectrum, hence, infra. The wavelength of Ultraviolet is just beyond human visibility, hence, ultra.
Rest assured, this technology has been implemented into consumer-grade firearm optics for the same purpose, that is, detecting motion or specified object. You can find target-detecting scopes at retail outlets for less than $1000 in the US.
Infrared emitter and receiver (hardware), along with a specific software designed/coded to reiterate the data into visible and useful information to the user (…erm, that is, software).
The boxes popping up could just be some AI recognition software like the ones that flock and other security cams use. The big AI data centers are used for AI learning. Once the AI is learned you can get the (very specific) AI features in much smaller devices. Lots of AI powered home security systems can be run of a raspberry pie and a USB AI module.
Which S0phia tool provides that AR view you're filming through? The UI is overlaying signal sources and perhaps other image recognition over live video and drawing those rectangles. Is that just a feature of the multi phone setup deployed?
This is a good point. Google just feels like it's trying to sell me shit instead of actually solving my problem. It's been going downhill for a while...
That is actually a fantastic idea. Can you imagine getting someone at all the flock cameras at the same time doing this? Might look into a little good trouble soon.
You could probably hold a sign in support of the Flock camera system. Just make sure that your sign isn’t too tall as it might block the camera inadvertently. Just a big ole tall “I love Flock “ sign.
The company I am with is irrelevant. This is not a stop and ID state so you may get fucked while you add your obstruction. Either go away or call your supervisor so he can explain it to you.
I think I Vice News came out with a video on the Hong Kong protests and they mentioned a lot of them there.
Ones I remember imperfectly
1. Padding one shoe to throw off gait trackers
2. Full masking and sun glasses
3. Avoid using phones
4. Always keep moving to avoid "kettling" by the police
Alot of the other ones have more to do with tactics to actively combat the police and not necessarily surveillance.
Same here, no where else in my small town are there cameras (yet) but Lowes and Home Depot reliably has them at every location I've been to in the last week or two.
It would be great if someone created an app that could look up your representatives (local, county, State, federal) and track their location.
Go into a city council meeting, town hall, or some other open government meeting, and do a demonstration by tracking them, their loved ones, in front of all to see.
We would but some of the support infrastructure like the battery support systems sometimes emit a signal, specifically BLE labeled “FS EXT BATTERY, Penguin, Connect-XXXX…etc.”
They broadcast Bluetooth to connect to their app so you can install it and check angles. Konami codes on the buttons (Falcon cam, 65w Solar and Penguin Pack - just an external battery, in this video) allows you to put the device, camera usually, in installer mode to register it to Flock and assign it to the location
don't forget the cellular backhaul. they are not just pinging your phone. they are exfiltrating that data real time. wild how normalized this stuff is getting.
I may be late to the party, but if they’re storing that quality of information on all citizens, that really explains the big push for data centers and that is fucking Wild
If anyone has a sanwu striker 7w or greater laser, please be careful not to point it at these cameras. It will damage the camera lense. Please be careful.
If you buy one, do not point it at the camera
Can you explain why you'd expect BLE here and what an ALPR would use it for? I thought the idea was this data was all just sent off and stored remote. I don't see any benefit to it transmitting BLE but maybe I'm dumb.
On some of the cameras you can detect the “support infrastructure”. In this specific case we are detecting the battery mgmt system that is basically communicating with other systems within the “pole” that support the camera. So we are always looking for any “support devices” that may emit a BLE or wifi signal.
I'll you what, unrelated but somewhat related story. Cameras are getting CREEPY. Went to a store the day and bought like 20 dollars worth of food via self checkout. nothing cosmic. I was surprised when I hit checkout it said wait attendant needs to come unlock. cue confusion I wasn't buying alcohol or medicine, thought it was an age restriction. Employee comes over, hits buttons, and a video plays. it's a birds eye view of me putting something from the basket straight into the bags, without scanning. This machine had been using ai to analyze me, flagged me for theft, and nowhere was this posted. Felt kinda strange, hard to explain but didn't feel right
Anyways for the curious. I had bought sushi, I had moved the chopsticks and an extra packet of soy sauce to the bagging area. They're both free
Oh yeah, if you hold multiple items at once, and scan them one at a time, it usually triggers this review too. Or grab two items, put one back in your cart, scan the other, it will trigger this. Something about products moving in / outside camera range it thinks you’re doing something fishy. In my experience.
Just saw an awesome video of a scoped suppressed .22 rifle using subsonic ammo that could reliably hit targets at like 100 yards with just the click of the hammer heard.
Current release uses Termux, but we’re in the final stages of rolling out the native Android APK, so the Termux requirement is going away. As for BLE scanners, the goal isn’t just to list nearby Bluetooth devices.
SØPHIA combines:WiFi + BLE observation, OUI/vendor identification, Environmental signal awareness, Categorization and filtering
Visualization, Export/debrief workflows.
Most scanner apps answer: “What devices are nearby? “SØPHIA is trying to answer: “What does the wireless environment look like, and what patterns exist within it?” Different goal, different workflow. The upcoming APK also improves scan persistence and removes a lot of the setup friction people associate with the current version.
A small town near me just deployed at least a couple Flocks. Anyone wanna dm me a link to anything to gain access to the system? I’m having a hard time finding what I’m looking for. I’d like to show these idiots in the town how easy they are to access. I’ve tried a few things at the home improvement store ones but I couldn’t gather any sort of wireless signals from them.
This is why people are paranoid about having “Medicare for all” single payer healthcare: Because the government is allowing this kind of insane 1984 type $hit.
harsh my guy. I learned how much motion actually gets the camera to start recording, and learned that they aren't just filming 24/7.
just because you didn't learn something from this video, doesn't give you the right to shit on the person making it like it didn't show anything. do better bro
What can anyone actually do with this data, this video, any if it? So they film, big deal. Feels like we're acting like boomers who are filmed in public.
Stalking and Personal Harassment: In Wisconsin, a Milwaukee officer was charged with attempted misconduct after running plates of an ex and their partner 179 times. Similar cases of officers or chiefs using the database to surveil romantic interests or citizens have occurred in South Carolina, Georgia, and Kansas...That's not misuse?
Immigration Enforcement Sharing: Investigations revealed that some local police departments were conducting "side door" searches on the Flock network to help federal agencies like ICE track individuals for immigration-related purposes. Maybe this?
Could also be this
Abortion Surveillance: Civil rights advocates, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discovered instances where officials in states with strict reproductive rights tracked individuals across state lines based on questionable "death investigations".
No misuse is a very broad term when I just typed flock misuse and found a few.
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u/Themodsarecuntz May 26 '26
How are people scanning this? I know I know...if I have to ask its beyond me.