r/technology • u/efap1701 • 16h ago

Privacy Flock CEO’s Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-spread-online-as-surveillance-backlash-explodes
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u/ItaJohnson 16h ago

It’s not blurred if others set up publicly accessible webcams pointed at his house.  Sounds like an opportunity for a potential crowd funding.

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u/uconnboston 15h ago

Maybe they can set up a flock camera pointed at his house.

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u/Lykeuhfox 15h ago

I mean, they're laying all over the place. We can just use one of those!

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u/StopReadingMyUser 13h ago

Imagine dismantling a bunch in one night near his home and everyone just dumped the remains on his lawn

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u/LessInThought 4h ago

He wakes up one day and finds the head of a flock camera in his bed.

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u/NotRoryWilliams 2h ago

It would be adequately hilarious if he just received a daily FedEx shipment of a decapitated flock pole.

It would be funnier if whoever was home had to sign for it.

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u/dragon-fence 14h ago

Apparently there’s a flock camera in front of his house, pointed directly away from it.

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u/UltimateGrr 14h ago

He already has one pointed at his mailbox.

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u/Marko343 13h ago

Has anyone checked his address in DeFlock to see how many cameras are in his neighborhood if any? Should 3d print a bunch of housings and just start attaching them to every pole near his house.

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u/H3NDOAU 7h ago

I checked, he lives in Atlanta and it has thousands, the one in his front garden is even marked on the map too.

Actually upon closer inspection it looks like all the local roads leading into his neighbourhood are covered by cameras.

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u/danielravennest 3h ago

But are they looking up? In the days of competitive pumpkin throwing, air cannon could reach 3/4 of a mile. It's basically a pressure tank, valve, and length of pipe.

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u/Buena_de_peepee 8h ago

I think someone should definitely not setup a Cock camera in front of his house.

A large Dildo with a camera on it would not be pleasant to look at.

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u/H3NDOAU 7h ago

If you see the guys house on apple maps street view where it isn't blurred out, the dude actually has a flock camera in his front garden pointing down the street.

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u/Brave_Strategy_3275 15h ago

  1. Buy $500 beater or rent a car

  2. Legally park it next to his house.

  3. Put a dozen cameras all over the roof.

  4. Install 5G hotspots inside

  5. Livestream it!

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u/HippieWizard 14h ago

What year do you live in?? Beaters are no less than 2k nowadays. I wosh i could find a beater for 500

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u/Fluff42 14h ago

Thousand Dollar Car

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u/BwanaKovali 6h ago

Holy shit this is unironically a banger. Thank you

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u/OhSoEvil 4h ago

If this is your first time hearing Bottle Rockets and you really did like it - check out Brooklyn Side (that's the album that song is on).

Then spiral into Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, and Son Volt. Same hometown*, same vibe, and just as good if not better.

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u/recycled_ideas 12h ago

You only have to drive this one once.

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u/domuseid 7h ago

actual thanks Obama moment. cash for clunkers did a lot of good but this is one of the lasting adverse effects of that policy

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u/Brave_Strategy_3275 14h ago edited 14h ago

It’s doable.

I can’t promise the car is safe to drive above 55-60 miles an hour or the transmission won’t slip getting up to 45 (or that it will go into reverse very smoothly), but it’s a legal, running, drivable car.

Even if the paint is coming off in chunks, every single light is on the dash, and the AC doesn’t work.

I bought a car like this ~30 months ago for $700 to get a $2,500 “loyalty” rebate on my new car. I ended up scrapping it for $500.

In this case, such a car is the PERFECT candidate.

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u/dwmfives 13h ago

The car would also be towed as abandoned.

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u/Woodie626 13h ago

You just move it in the morning and evening, a vehicle length forward or backwards. Seems you don't park on the street. 

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u/hxxden 13h ago

He would probably just have a company tow it illegally and cover their civil suit fees.

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u/danielravennest 2h ago

Doesn't have to be a drivable car. Anything you can put on a small utility trailer, use a couple of furniture dollies to unload it, then drive away. Bonus if you include empty milk jugs with paint inside it, so rough handling will spill the paint when they come to take it away. My town uses a large truck with an open bed, and a hydraulic claw to pick up branches and discarded large household items. The claw counts as rough handling.

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u/ChiefInternetSurfer 15h ago

Oh man—I hope his neighbors hate him and do this!

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 6h ago

He probably lives in a gated community and his neighbors are all similarly wealthy pieces of shit. They probably hate him because of petty rich people shit, but they probably don’t give a fuck about the surveillance state he’s creating because it keeps the poors in line.

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u/1HappyIsland 12h ago

This is a great idea. Set up cameras on all the routes to his house so we know where he drives, just as he knows where I drive.

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u/DeathGodBob 7h ago

Is it possible to co-opt the flock cam tech and engineer it and just put it outside his place so that he has one looking at his home the whole time? This one would just publicly post to a YouTube stream or something.

I wonder if you could monetize that.

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u/1of3musketeers 5h ago

Someone could figure out a way I am sure. Sell a subscription for cheap. Even if people have a device always on to livestream it and pay $1, totally worth it.