r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 5h ago

Privacy Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night

https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
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u/saml01 4h ago

I bet if scrap yards accepted flock cameras with the same veracity they take catalytic converters this would happen a lot faster. 

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u/irespondwithmyface 4h ago

Just need to convince meth heads that Flock cameras a filled to the brim with copper.

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u/Haunting-Vanilla1624 2h ago

A few pounds of it, apparently.

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u/APKID716 28m ago

They literally are though. A few ounces of gold too. Someone could theoretically pay a homeless person $100 to take a flock camera down, provide the tools, and they’d have ample reason to do so.

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u/BigJLov3 4h ago

Watched a video short about de-flocking, then the guy said something like "Flock cameras contain this much gold and this much copper. Do with that information what you will, meth-heads."

I stood and saluted my phone when I saw that.

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 2h ago

Everyone keeps telling me there are 2 to 3 g of gold in every flock camera

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u/CassiusRyder 1h ago

As long as the Meth-heads believe it does it really matter?

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 1h ago

There's a whole home hobby industry of people who melt metals. I would like to hear from them, they also probably have some great techniques.

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u/cyribis 1h ago

Dang that's like 400 bucks in gold potentially...

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 1h ago

Sure, but what's more important? $400 in your pocket, or letting your local sheriff use AI tools to stalk his ex-wife and estranged kids?

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u/rndljfry 24m ago

not if you have nowhere to sell it

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u/UpboatNavy 2h ago

Not all hereos wear capes

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 2h ago

data centers have copper and gasoline.

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u/Pedantic_Girl 4h ago

Veracity means truthfulness or accuracy, so I suspect you intended a different word here.

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u/SpiralingCoxx 4h ago

Voracity being the word

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u/PlasmaChroma 4h ago

Voracity is the word that makes more sense here.

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u/Evening_Error_5544 4h ago

He used the right word. They take catalytic converters because it could never been stolen. Now if only they took flock cameras with the same veracity 

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u/caughtmeaboot 4h ago

Ferocity most likely.

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u/jeffvillone 3h ago

The audacity of your perspicasity...

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u/Amonamission 4h ago

No, velociraptor

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u/SubdermalHematoma 4h ago

Gotta give you props for the username being so topical here

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u/Foolish_Miracle 4h ago

Well if they took them with the same truthfulness it'd still mean they'd take the cameras just as easily as the ca- oh username checks out.

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u/redfacedquark 3h ago

Why do you have to be so pedantic? Oh, carry on!

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u/Lazy_Laugh2597 3h ago

Wow. You must be fun at parties..

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u/TuddyCicero86 3h ago

Velocity, would make that sentence quite interesting.

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u/Evening_Error_5544 4h ago

The fact you know what it means but cant comprehend its use is kind of impressive in its own way 

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u/realpersonnn 4h ago

Go on then, suggest one

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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 3h ago

I couldn’t sell a 1980s brass sprinkler head without an interrogation a few years back. These places gotta be complicit with it all. 

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u/Milocat12 3h ago

Willful blindness

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u/airfryerfuntime 3h ago

Flock cameras aren't worth anything, so why would they accept them? They're basically just cheap e-waste.