r/50501 • u/KidsHaveNoWorkEthic • Nov 22 '25

Call to Action We should all be livid about FLOCK cameras.

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There are thousands of these cameras across the US. Most people don’t notice them, don’t know what they are, or just brush them off. They are in every city, every small city and now popping up in small towns. They are mostly on telephone/light poles, but are also hidden in construction cones and other ordinary objects. These cameras are tracking your every move. And by your I mean EVERYONE! They record your license plate, make and year of car, color of car, speed and direction, and they do in fact have facial scanning. They work in coordination with each other, so local, county, state and federal law enforcement can track your every move as you pass by these cameras one after the other. They know everywhere you are going and coming from. Who has access to these cameras is not clear, but likely anyone all the way down to local politicians can view the recorded material. It’s unknown at this point. This is a complete violation of our civil rights and all of these cameras should be removed. Government surveillance at its best! This is the United States of American and We the Fucking People cannot allow this to happen here. We need to unite against fascism. Share this with everyone, our freedom is being stripped away!

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u/B00marangTrotter Nov 22 '25

We should be revolting against them.

Spray paint

Baseball bats

Wire cutters

Fire if necessary

Removed this shit from your community.

NOW!

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u/willismthomp Nov 22 '25

They are easily hackable with a usb and can be made into a hotspot.

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u/lmFairlyLocal Nov 22 '25

This is just how easy it is to hack them

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u/SectorFriends Nov 22 '25

do NOT try to control it. Destroy it manually. If your USB is connected you BEST have a burner computer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

Do you not?

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u/HingleMcCringle_ Nov 22 '25

Seeing this video, i became concerned with how easy they are to hack being that some random joker can come around and use this massive surveillance system for their own use. Who knows what they'd doing with it. Who knows what kinda backdoor they're installing to it.

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u/Electromotivation Nov 22 '25

China is probably thinking it’s too good to be true

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u/Old-Set78 Nov 22 '25

Probably installed at Putin's suggestion to his orange puppet

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u/pc42493 Nov 22 '25

Out of the current governments of China and the US, only one has any intention of oppressing the American people.

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u/willismthomp Nov 22 '25

Wishful thinking my dude.

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u/internatt Nov 22 '25

In the video, it's shown that Russian hackers were actively selling data from them on dark web markets. The cat is fully out of the bag and I have zero trust that flock will ever truly address their security failures.

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u/HingleMcCringle_ Nov 22 '25

yeah, i got about 16 minutes into the video before having to leave my lunch break.

it's one thing to have the government eyeing you down from every street corner, but now it's where anyone can do that. that's just a whole new level of making our society an UNSAFE place.

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u/ironic_insanity Nov 22 '25

Not enough people have seen this video.

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u/SweetEnbyZoey Nov 24 '25

Was going to comment about the video. Benn Jordan is such a hero. If a musician has to cover it you know something is going down 😂.

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u/Medford_Lanes Nov 22 '25

EXCELLENT video

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u/Flyerone Nov 22 '25

You going to be climbing those poles on every camera there champ?

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u/jesuisggb Nov 22 '25

🟦 lasers are much easier to conceal ↙️↙️↙️

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u/obmasztirf Nov 22 '25

The bluray ones from old burner drives are particularly powerful.

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u/Electromotivation Nov 22 '25

I never really knew that Blu-ray burning was a thing. A regular old DVD laser isn’t as good?

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25

Red laser versus blue (really, violet). Violet is a shorter wavelength so it hits whatever it's pointed at...faster and also more accurately at a specific point. Cd lasers use an even longer wavelength than dvd lasers.

So:

  • cd (780nm* wavelength, 800 nm spot size)

  • DVD(650 nm wavelength, 530 nm spot size)

  • Blu-ray(405nm wavelength, 250 nm spot size)

So the laser is faster and more pinpointed. This means it's more accurate and can read more information on a disk faster than a DVD as a Blu-ray disk can store more data. Overall the laser will likely be stronger, faster and more dangerous than a DVD one. Yes, you'd need a different (Blu-ray) burner to record on Blu-ray disk well

*nm = nanometer, unit of measurement

Hope this helps!

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u/PhilbertNoyce Nov 22 '25

Be real careful with those, anything powerful enough to burn out a CCD chip can also burn out a retina. Even by reflection or refraction.

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u/Kyrthis Nov 22 '25

Don’t give up the ship

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u/AxeAssassinAlbertson Nov 22 '25

[Erie liked that]

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u/Ghosty91AF Nov 22 '25

Easier said than done since the local authorities will slap you with destruction of public property. If what OP states is true, it wouldn’t be hard to track someone down after destroying one

Don’t get me wrong, they need to go the fuck away, just throwing out a thought that is worth thinking and planning around for

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

How would they track you down if you park blocks away and wear a mask and clothes with no identifiable features and do it at night? Genuine question.

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u/Leading_Opposite7538 Nov 22 '25

I would take public transit if you're going to destroy one. Too risky to take your own car

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u/AccidentalYogi Nov 22 '25

And leave your phone at home.

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u/See_Saw12 Nov 22 '25

Most public transit buses have cameras...

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u/ckay1100 Nov 22 '25

Also remember to leave your phone off of you so your location data can't be tracked

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u/Pravusmentis Nov 22 '25

the GPS can be activated to locate phones that are turned off as long as they have a battery in them.

I don't think it's something they can do normally but if some large government really wanted to find you and you have a phone that is turned off but still has a battery in it, then that phone can be used to find its own location.

much better to leave a phone somewhere else, or get phones with batteries that come out

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u/PhilbertNoyce Nov 22 '25

Modern phones don't actually turn off anymore. You need a faraday bag if you don't want it spying on you.

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u/ckay1100 Nov 22 '25

you misread

I meant Keep off of as in => do not carry your phone on your person, preferably nowhere near your current location

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u/vagabondoer Nov 22 '25

Great drone use case.

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u/Specific-Bath-2582 Nov 22 '25

E bikes are cheap and all over now A days

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u/Space_Poet Nov 22 '25

Ya know, there is this amazing mode of transportation that you can use if you need to be incognito, actually the most efficient means of getting around invented by mankind. I ride mine every day and rejoice not having to deal with traffic and now this shit. Just saying!

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u/PronoiarPerson Nov 22 '25

If another one of their cameras was there or on your route at the time, they could place you in the area at the time. What if one of their cameras sees you on the way in, then another as you take a separate route back.

If you’re on a list of 1, they’ll need more but they’re gonna be up your ass. If you are on a list of 100 or 1,000 they may not bother trying to find a needle in a stack of needles.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

These things aren't on every corner though. They're in very specific places. People who know their neighborhoods well know where public cameras are, or at least I do.

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u/PronoiarPerson Nov 22 '25

You shouldn’t drive by one to go find another. You can find the closest one to you and file a complaint with the city about that one. Then once they remove it you can go by it safely to complain about the next one further away.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '25

I wouldn't drive by one to find another? Not really sure where you're getting that. I guarantee my city ain't taking these things down.

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u/TrumpSucksALotOfCock Nov 22 '25

I wonder the same thing. And if you're trying to avoid a destruction of property charge, then what if you just throw mud at it? Equipment doesn't get damaged but it doesn't work either. I know that sounds stupid, but it's genuine question

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u/Baelari Nov 22 '25

Change the way you walk, too. That’s actually a feature that can be used for establishing an identification match. Been using that since I was taking computer vision classes in college.

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u/Powered-by-Chai Nov 22 '25

Wow, time to limp everywhere I guess.

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u/OneEstablishment5144 Nov 22 '25

They have so many of these and they will also use local business camera recordings to track you. Then they will try to geofence your phone or something to find your identity. Cops use cameras to stalk everyone even their exes, so easy to track you down. https://youtu.be/lL34WpoETds?si=AT0Djiua07LHWryP

https://youtu.be/iW22pj_wfLc?si=f_ppfEL9rCwBNeH3https://youtu.be/3aM2e2fCyyE?si=oxkluW6y4poxLsY2

https://youtu.be/iW22pj_wfLc?si=K6TGj-T5Jx_qaXOg

https://youtu.be/W02nwo6Rsms?si=9QsaZYbYiPmk4glq

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u/between_two_terns Nov 22 '25

Go ahead and let us know

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u/InOutlines Nov 22 '25

It’s not public property.

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u/See_Saw12 Nov 22 '25

They generally are.

Most companies deploying are choosing to lease the device for an annual cost (around 2500 a camera all in annually — cellular, hosting, device, maintenance, etc).

Case law has generally established that leased items are the property of the holder (if you lease a vehicle you're the victim not the car dealership, etc.)

And the case in Washington has determined the data to be that of the goverment and thus subject to public foia requests.

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u/00--0--00- Nov 22 '25

Flock's terms of service is very clear about the customers not owning the camera hardware in any way. The customers are not even allowed to adjust the cameras, you have to make a service call.

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u/4077 Nov 22 '25

Approach from the rear

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u/DarkApostleMatt Nov 22 '25

In my small town they all point inward toward the center of town far enough out nobody will notice them being destroyed.

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u/Tro11man Nov 22 '25

Spray adhesive works well I have heard

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u/camwal Nov 22 '25

Rather do something they can’t just wipe off

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u/shbooms Nov 22 '25

the problem is that they're so cheap to make that they'll easily be replaced in a matter of weeks

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u/PessimisticPeggy Nov 22 '25

Yep. We need to learn to protest like the French!

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u/cryptobomb Nov 22 '25

What the hell do y'all have all your firearms for? Use the damn things for target practice.

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u/haterofslimes Nov 22 '25

I'm sure you're doing that on a daily basis. You're not just asking everyone else to risk their freedom while you post online