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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 30 points 1 hour ago

Since Flock CEO wants to give this movement some press

Here's Benn Jordan, he's done a series of videos on the cameras, demonstrates their vulnerabilities, and talks about how Flock has been deploying secretly by co-opting local municipalities to subsidize their national rollout.

First video, the one seems to have started the major anti-Flock push: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

Follow-up showing how easy they are to hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY

More live demonstrated vulnerabilities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo

Not as directly related, but he discusses a way to use generative AI models to create noise masks for your specific plate that will disrupt the OCR process that ALPRs use. (Key term: Adversarial Noise) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F4rEaRduk

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago

Funny because I consider Flock a terrorist organization

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 hours ago

Notice how a lot of these servailence CEO often come across as quite skittish and oddly concerned about what other are doing while obvuscating their own actions, kind of reminds me of a someone I used to know with diegnosed parinoid...

Just sayin...

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 93 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"Everything I don't like is terrorism."

What is this, 2001 again?

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] XLE@piefed.social 9 points 1 hour ago

It's accelerated: In 2001, technology companies were forced to collect user data and realized it could be a goldmine. Today, technology companies are being forced to collect people's IDs... I'm sure this will end up just fine.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 9 points 2 hours ago

Spoken like an antifa, uh, 3 star general. Get him boys! /s The future is a lot dumber than we might have thought.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

Funny, I've been calling Flock the same thing.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 34 points 3 hours ago

He can go fuck himself.

[–] Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 57 minutes ago

"Anything/anyone that cuts into my profits are terrorists."

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Fuck these bootlickers

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I would like to kindly invite this person to lodge their head in a deeply recessed part of their own anatomy.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 133 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Flock is a terrorist organization.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 69 points 4 hours ago

Flock is a state sponsored terrorist organization.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 213 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

The word 'terrorist' has lost all meaning at this point.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 hour ago

It never had any meaning. Reagan had them redefine it in a way that didn’t implicate America.

[–] chisel@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago

That's partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

It means 'Enemy of the rich' now

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 164 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock's mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

🙄

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 71 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Careful! I think logic and questions are the new terrorist things to do! Oooo scarey!

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 29 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 hours ago

Believe it or not, jail

[–] db2@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Better ask chatgpt what to do about that.

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[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

Don't turn off your telescreen

[–] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 4 hours ago

Shit from the title I thought they were going around smashing the cameras and that it was an exaggeration, but I was clearly wrong on the scale

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 hours ago

It lost all meaning the second Bush declared the "War on Terror".

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

It never had meaning. To instill deep fear. Doing violent acts with the purpose of achieving a political end.

It's always been super broad and just waiting for a domestic party to adopt the tactics of Israel's occupied territories here in the US, that's where this was always heading.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 37 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is just a play out of the rules for radicals playbook: accuse others of what you are doing.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 11 points 5 hours ago
[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

In the UK the term is defined by the government as anyone who is deemed by the government a threat to the government or the people or someone's property or the predominant local religion. But recently it's been exclusively used for the first one. In this country state law is valued higher than corporate, moral, ethical and religious laws, so YMMV

"
Terrorism: interpretation. (Terrorism Act 2000)

(1)In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where— (a)the action falls within subsection (2), (b)the use or threat is designed to influence the government [or an international governmental organisation] or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and (c)the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious [, racial] or ideological cause.

(2)Action falls within this subsection if it— (a)involves serious violence against a person, (b)involves serious damage to property, (c)endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action, (d)creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or (e)is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

(3)The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.

(4)In this section— (a)“action” includes action outside the United Kingdom, (b)a reference to any person or to property is a reference to any person, or to property, wherever situated, (c)a reference to the public includes a reference to the public of a country other than the United Kingdom, and (d)“the government” means the government of the United Kingdom, of a Part of the United Kingdom or of a country other than the United Kingdom.

(5)In this Act a reference to action taken for the purposes of terrorism includes a reference to action taken for the benefit of a proscribed organisation.
"

Link

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

It's so broad, they can accuse anyone of it, and that's the point. Both parties have long supported these over broad laws too, because they are not on our side, they want the ability to bring the power of the state on the heads of any groups that might not be breaking the law in a way any reasonable person would condemn but still scare those aritstocrats.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In the UK it means the cop wants your ID and is willing to pretend your camera is a gun to get it.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago

The UK isn't the US (at least in this context) almost nobody has guns.

In very limited situations the police can, but it's not the norm.

Don't get me wrong, ACAB, they just don't generally use guns a as a pretext, perhaps a knife, or perhaps there is more than an arbitrary number of people grouped together so they can claim an 'illegal' protest.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 45 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So we've moved on from Woke finally and just calling everything terrorist now? At least I won't have to ask everyone saying "everything is so woke now" to define woke and watch them sputter.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 15 points 4 hours ago

That will just be replaced with asking them to define terrorism and watching them sputter.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 90 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Feeling the need to state "they are closer to Antifa than anything else" about your opponents might be a good point to rethink your ethics...

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 70 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So... Flock have literally described themselves as fascist...

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 14 points 4 hours ago

Their self description fits their actions.

[–] axh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Their what?

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 33 points 6 hours ago

This guy couldn't sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

[–] LemmyShemmy@aussie.zone 17 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

A big Fk U to all plebs coz I got all the money in the world

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why do they always have such punchable faces?

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 points 56 minutes ago

his face appears to be asymmetrical.

[–] TheOneCurly@feddit.online 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why is he dressed like the joker?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

... but the Joker if he sold fake life insurance in nursing homes.

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