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Ralston18 Despite the disclaimers this article should never have been published/ posted. Why give people ideas or otherwise provide means to those who will (for whatever reasons) ignore the law and go foward with actions anyway? Not useful or informative. Will defer to the lawyers (I am not a lawyer) regarding how defendents might be able to still use the article as a defense when charged. Guilt by association can have a long reach. Reply
Reechard Ralston18 said: Despite the disclaimers this article should never have been published/ posted. Why give people ideas or otherwise provide means to those who will (for whatever reasons) ignore the law and go foward with actions anyway? Not useful or informative. Will defer to the lawyers (I am not a lawyer) regarding how defendents might be able to still use the article as a defense when charged. Guilt by association can have a long reach. If a law is created that hurts society as a whole, society should feel a moral obligation to break that law. Reply
bill001g So someone knows there are cameras and then attempts to make stupid stuff to help them commit crime more easily. For someone smart enough to do this must know how these cameras are used. All depends on if the police are willing to track them down. When you see on the news about cities that use these in their "real time crime centers" it is fascinating. They catch car jackers within minutes. Unless they can somehow disable all the flock cameras and all the other crime cameras at the same time the police will just use the other cameras to catch them. Sure they can wear a mask or cover the plate on their car but the cops will just look at other cameras and back track the person based on clothing or color of the car. At some point they will get a photo without the mask or plate covered. If there was some sticker or dent on the car they could look back days before. These systems when used properly are impressive. The solution to the misuse is to make a mandatory jail time requirement. People will be more fearful of misusing it if they knew someone actually got put in jail rather than just getting fired from their job or maybe some silly term of probation. Reply
Reechard bill001g said: So someone knows there are cameras and then attempts to make stupid stuff to help them commit crime more easily. For someone smart enough to do this must know how these cameras are used. All depends on if the police are willing to track them down. When you see on the news about cities that use these in their "real time crime centers" it is fascinating. They catch car jackers within minutes. Unless they can somehow disable all the flock cameras and all the other crime cameras at the same time the police will just use the other cameras to catch them. Sure they can wear a mask or cover the plate on their car but the cops will just look at other cameras and back track the person based on clothing or color of the car. At some point they will get a photo without the mask or plate covered. If there was some sticker or dent on the car they could look back days before. These systems when used properly are impressive. The solution to the misuse is to make a mandatory jail time requirement. People will be more fearful of misusing it if they knew someone actually got put in jail rather than just getting fired from their job or maybe some silly term of probation. Being raised on "China is a surveillance state and you're on camera everywhere and it's bad to have mass surveillance because communism China bad" and have that propaganda still somehow work and think China is bad because of mass surveillance…. while people like you are defending having a surveillance state of our own, including wanting harsher penalties for people who protest the surveillance in the only meaningful way. I'll keep saying it. Legal and Moral are two different things. You have to pick a side at some point. Darth Vader was Lawful too. Reply
usertests Ralston18 said: Not useful or informative. Seems useful and informative if your goal is to mess with Flock cameras. Reply
Wahapainan USAFRet said: And being used illegally, to track people. By the very people who have control over them. Your daily movements, logged on someone elses server, forever. Yes they are issuing 'speeding tickets'. Sometimes incorrectly. Rubbish. You're confusing Flock license plate readers with speed cameras. Flock cameras do not continuously track people or vehicles in real time. They capture a vehicle at a specific place and time. If that same vehicle passes multiple cameras, investigators can piece together its route afterward. That's not the same thing as GPS tracking. Your claim that data is stored "forever" is also false. Flock's standard retention period has historically been about 30 days, and the company has announced a move to a 7-day default. Some agencies may retain data longer under their own policies, but it is not automatically kept forever. And no, Flock cameras do not issue speeding tickets. They don't measure speed at all. Their purpose is to read license plates, identify vehicle characteristics, alert law enforcement to stolen or wanted vehicles, and provide investigative leads. They are not speed cameras or red-light cameras. If you're going to criticize the technology, at least criticize what it actually does—not what you've confused it with. Reply
Ralston18 How to illegally mess with any sort of system is a topic that cannot be presented in any responsible way. Technical or otherwise. Understood or not. Morality, legality, and ethical philosophic discussions belong in other kinds forums. And the onging discussions are going off track from technical. Closing thread to further posts. Reply
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