Technology

A city near me has installed a device that tracks vehicles based on their tpms (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) sensors.

All cars after 2008 in the US have TPMS. Inside the tire, integrated with the vale stem, are little pressure sensors with a radio that broadcasts on the 315Mhz band. Each one uses a slightly different frequency so that your vehicle can tell which of the four tires is low.

So each vehicle in the US made after 2008 has four unique radio signals being broadcast from it, and now there are police departments with equipment that can track those signals, and can assign each car a signature based on the frequencies the sensors are broadcasting on.

Just like everyone is quitting facebook, ChatGPT, and all the other things people are boycotting that seem to never have anything happen to them.

Fun fact: lots of them have exposed cables that should not be cut with a long arm pruning pole found in your grandmother's shed.

How would I go about finding a Flock camera?

This is exactly what this company deserves, to be smashed out of business and history.

Reminder: If you destroy a camera, be aware that other cameras in the area may be recording you as well. Protect your identity.

my neighbor hood has one right at the entrance. I make a point of flipping it off every time i pass it. Also, If you were curious how many of these violations of privacy are around you. Here you go- https://deflock.org/map

Fuck centralized surveillance.

I vandalized my own Ring cameras. It didn't feel right to resell them just so they can spy on me from someone else's front porch.

I just learned HGTV has a Jan 7 2026 show called "Neighborhood Watch". It's like America's Funniest Home Videos, but it's all doorbell/security cameras. User-submitted, I think. I absolutely refuse to believe this was a casual idea from HGTV as they struggle to maintain viewership. There's no way this isn't funded by one of these companies, meant to continue making everyone comfortable with constant surveillance and increasing the desire to have constant recording devices to catch these one-off comedic moments.

Tagline: "Everywhere you go, cameras are recording. Your neighbors are watching."

Well, the CEO did openly invite and approve of this. In his own words, Flock cameras aren't forced on anyone. So the only logical conclusion is to destroy them if so desired.

You most definatly shouldent make a cell phone app that you can put in front of the camera that just cycles through random plates and includes copies of conststution. I wonder if you can do 10 per second. 36000 per hour all day long.

Just gonna leave this here for anyone so inclined

https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/flock-you

There's one a block from my house, and three blocks from my work, so they can see me coming and going each direction.

...BRB

Similar to what happened in Hong Kong a few years back when the CCP introduced metal telephone poles chock full of monitoring equipment and cameras.

Good. We need to teach these pigs a lesson

Heartwarming.

"Sabotage"

Hell yeah brother

Benn Jordan has done great videos on this stuff

How would you take such a camera down without being spotted and tracked? Do they not look in all directions?

Not asking for all the technical details on how to take one down, just curious how so many can be taken down with so few arrests after. I guess it's a matter of good disguises?

They are beginning to disguise them in cones, barrels and small ones on a pole as small as rebar.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about acquiring one myself. I want to dissect it, hook it up to some monitoring equipment/ software, see what I can learn about it… functionality, vulnerability, anything. But I’m also worried about the potential I accidentally show up on a video feed stored somewhere remote. I’ve been checking eBay for them, but honestly… there are several right by my home. We’ll see what happens, in time.