Got tired of my city putting up these mass surveillance devices everywhere, decided to take things into my own hands. If anyone has an idea for how I could put these to a less evil use, let me know!
This feels like bait.
Those solar panels look pretty useful.
I was thinking the solar panels and batteries could work well for a small scale solar farm.
Some queer techie probably suggested that their mass surveillance should use green energy at the Palantir standup while assisting the fascists
Nazi or brain damaged?
I don’t think those are mutually exclusive.
That’s for sure. The venn diagram is fairly circular I’m sure.
Not all people with brain damage are Nazis.
Smaller circle(Nazis) inside a larger circle(brain damage).
Not all people with brain damage are Nazis, but all Nazis have brain damage.
Yeah, more like the Nazi circle is a smaller circle inside the brain damage one
Do you know how many so called fake leftists work at these tech shops helping build mass surveillance? Most tech I know everyone acts liberal then does whatever the fuck evil shit their company wants.
Green energy is just economics now. Even ticket vending machines need certified electric meters to connect to the mains on someone else’s property so it’s easier to give them a tiny panel and battery instead.
It’s beyond economics. Solar panels keep working when the grid is down. Give it a battery that can run it for a week and a solar panel that can refill it in a week or two and it’s only going down when it’s physically downed.
Low power security infrastructure has been solar for a long time
Like the other person said, solar power is basically free. Yeah the panel and battery are expensive up front, but they then literally run for decades with basically no up keep at all.
Huh? You may be having an aneurysm
Tbh, I’m surprised these dont have gps tags in them. Vandalism/theft would be expected I’d think.
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Nice!
Well done. Good to see citizens fighting back. :)
They might, but even if they don’t, posting Exhibit A online was certainly a fucking choice
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Bright green walls may not be as common as you think.
Bright green wall with bright flood lighting immediately makes me think streamer/content creator. I’m not even a detective, and I’ve already significantly narrowed down potential suspects in 30 seconds.
This is wildly bad OPSEC.
Geoguessr expert mode
If OP is smart, they changed the color of their walls in the photo before making the post
Better yet, paint to this color before taking the photo, then painting it a different color immediately afterwards
No, because then forensic study will uncover that it had once been painted that color.
You’re giving cops way too much fucking credit.
My house got robbed, there was a glaringly obvious fingerprint on the window they smashed open and crawled in through. When I pointed it out to the cops and they were like, well, that probably won’t help us with anything. Hope you find your stuff.
And then they left.
And how tf would the cops think to do that
Server logs with IP addresses?
Just remember that hubris gets a lot of criminals. Posting about your crimes online has this sort of energy:
This is how Kira got caught man
The only thing the cops in the town with a bunch of missing equipment have to do to find you is go door to door looking in people’s windows for green paint on the walls.
Or even just copy this picture onto their police facebook with the line “Does anyone know this guy?”
based but also idiotic
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Strip them for copper and rare metals
Figure out the best way to non/minimally destructively upload new software/firmware to the devices and dump whatever you can extract on github. Let the internet do the rest.
That’s a good idea, I’ll have to poke at them a bit and see whether I can do that.
I’m having a hard time believing this, as much as I want to.
Why do you have the mounting equipment and bolts? It would be one thing to steal the panel and wires, but you literally have the entire setup including parts nobody would ever bother stealing. How could you possibly feel comfortable enough to do a full disassembly in the field and organize the various installation parts like this?
The cameras do look dirty and used though. So I want to believe. I just can’t fathom chillin out there taking your time to collect every component.
Put on a reflective vest, and nobody bats an eye (your mileage may vary).
As to taking all the parts, maybe that was done to not leave evidence. If a cop were to see the mounting equipment, they’d know something’s up. If it’s just gone, they’d have to remember that there was one there at all to recognize it’s missing.
Removing everything would also make it more expensive to reinstall. Moreso if you cut the pole low.
Maybe this is to draw out others doing this/similar things and catch them.
yeah this whole sublemmy is bait
that’s fucking awesome. don’t get caught lol. though i imagine at this scale you know what you’re doing. godspeed
Maybe scoping the faces of ICE as they go into work, before they put their masks on
The first of my thoughts is some sort of an art installation where all these cameras are pointed at one person (standing on red X) from different angles, their distorted live outputs shown back to them in a collage. In the same vein, Massive Attack did a stage performance where they shown faces of concert goers with made up bios on stage screens driving the point about harmful surveiliance.
You are a fucking legend my man, keep it up.
I’d suggest ditching them fast just to maximize your ability to continue. If you’ve got a good handle on getting them stealthily, I would put that towards placing them visibly in the garbage or on the property of people or organizations that support this regime.
The solar panels should be easy enough to wire up and mpunt for personal use, just destroy any branding and make a plausible scenario for where you got them.
It depends on the specs of the batteries. If you can repurpose them to make rechargable power banks, battery packs, or maybe even power a decent rc. Alternatively, a cardboard drone isn’t a hard build. Or if you’re really after that super villain vibe, liions tend to burst and catch fire when punctured. An egg timer, a mouse trap, some nails and some hot glue and you’ll have yourself a time delayed fire starter. I’m sure there’s plenty of useful things that can be done with that.
Honestly I don’t think there is much you can do with them aside from salvaging them for valuable parts without increasing your risk profile dramatically. You can’t use them for anything unless you can replace the firmware and they’ve probably got serial numbers embedded in the bios chip so if you use them you run a huge risk.
One thing you could do is 3d model the cases and cameras. Then you could use those models to make and test 3d printable covers for any lenses or sensors that folks could print at home and glue or clip to their local cameras.
A black sock doesn’t require a 3D printer.
Fair point, I was imagining the covers as glued on, but didn’t mention it in my original comment. But I suppose you could do it with a jar lid and still not need a 3d printer.
Holy hell. Someone actually did it!!! Thats fucking metal as fuck. Go you!!
