• root@lemmy.wtf
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    7 天前

    It’s way easier just take a hammer, smash the lens, or spray paint the lens and then remove only the camera

    remove the battery

    take it somewhere thats NOT your home, and press the button on the back enough times, and you enable adb

    now you have a flock pc, which you can customize to remove the spyware through adb and do anything u want

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        7 天前

        oh, I just took the one in the video as an example, srry

        you could do this after cutting the pole too

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    9 天前

    This is horrible! No one should definitely do this!

    I glad the word is getting out, finally we can see for ourselves exactly how this crime is committed so we know what not to do in the future. Knowledge is power.

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      8 天前

      And slower. Great for plumbing, not so much a 3" aluminum post with 1/4" walls

      But hey, I might be wrong. 30yrs in the trades, but I’ve never tried cutting down an aluminum post with a pipe cutter

      Also if the method varies from person to person, or one person uses a unique method, it’s easier to get multiple vandalism charges to stick

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        8 天前

        It’s only aluminium, you could probably chew through it if you wanted

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          8 天前

          wet the post with gallium and put a piece of duct tape over it, i’ll fall over in an hour. no tools

          • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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            8 天前

            Where would get Gallium? I saw a youtubr video of some dude (mark something, I think) and he did this to aluminium cans. Always wanted to try that.

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              7 天前

              Ahh, that’s not the hard part; the hard part is how to get gallium without being noticed.

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        8 天前

        Hey, totally unrelated, but how does one cut copper pipes mounted close to the wall?

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          2 天前

          Oscillating saw with a semicircle blade and a piece of paneling behind the pipe in case you get squirrelly with it

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              8 天前

              Its a big part of why plumbers cost money. Like the auto shop guys, a lot of money gets spent on tools that get used maybe once or twice a year, sometimes less. But you must own them to do the work.

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            8 天前

            Cool. I saw those at the store when buying drill bits. Didn’t know what they were. Thanks.

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          Oh, I should clarify, “the trades” isn’t exclusively plumbing. I can sweat pipes and lay out a house but I’m no expert

          That being said I always used a little stubby cutter for pipes close to walls

          There’s other designs, including ratcheting ones that look so much easier than what I used

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      These things are a pain to use. Especially the cheap ones require more force than you’d expect and occasionally get stuck. They make a good clean cut but it’s so slow and awkward that if you were wanting to do vandalism they’re impractical relative to a reciprocating saw or better yet portable band saw.

      I also wouldn’t underestimate the power of spray paint, even though it’s simple to fix it’s still expensive when the contract specifics all the maintenance must be done by flock themselves.

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubOP
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      8 天前

      Would a straight cut be easier to add a union joint to and thus make the cost of repair slightly lower?

      I guess it would depend on priorities

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        Nah, they wouldn’t bother repairing the tube regardless of how it’s cut. If they did and the repair broke, hitting someone, they’d have to take the liability. For a company with their funding, a length of ally tube and the cost to dig it into the ground is fuck all.

        edit to add: but multiplied by hundreds of them being cut down, it’s not not fuck all. and it’s funny.

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      8 天前

      If you can’t taste the sarcasm in this video the tism is strong in you ❤️

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      8 天前

      The people taking them dawn are heroes and criminals. “Criminal” just means they’re not aligned with the law, not that they’re in some way immoral. In a country as corrupt as this, it’s a title to be worn proudly.

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    He was the punkest motherfucker I ever did see

    Aw, hell, he’s even more punk than me!

    Edit: kerning

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    8 天前

    Aren’t the criminals the one’s putting up the cameras? The heroes are actually the ones taking them down.

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    8 天前

    Flock cameras are probably less than 1% of the total surveillance state (that needs to be dismantled)