ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.
Who could have guessed that all the surveilance would be used by fascism? Ohh wait, everybody could have.
I think we've known this about Ring cameras for awhile now at least. Lowkey I kinda seethe about any neighbors buying that spyware shit. It's not like the fucking cops give a singular shit about home robberies anyways.
I think we’ve known this about Ring cameras for awhile now at least.
Absolutely. Anything that can be hacked by some uneducated douche is going to be exploited by the government.
But when you do experience a home invasion they will blame you not installing Spyware on your front door for why they won't bother investigating.
and so it begins
All those decades many of us spent warning about neoliberals and conservatives working hand in hand to build big brother FOR fascism fell on deaf ears...
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my future is ruined.
There is so many damn things on the list, like why do you need 700,000+ ways to ruin the future
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Yeah since 9/11 at least. Really since Hoover.
and this is why my security system will never connect to the Internet.
I've had cops ask for my footage before that sneer at me sending them the raw files. "why can't you just pull up the app?" or my favorite, "you should use ring, then we can just send a request to them for the footage."
sure, pig. sure. I'll open my home as a part of your distributed network surveillance botnet. /s
It is surprising how difficult most camera companies have made it to avoid their subscription services.
Multiple companies that used to offer local rstp streaming have summarily removed support in firmware upgrades without notifying their customers. Even companies that support it (like Foscam) demand developer agreements be signed to get basic camera command information. Tp-link supports rstp but requires an phone app and Internet connection to configure their cameras.
Like you, I will never connect my cameras to the Internet, but we are slowly approaching a time when that by itself will be a cause for police investigation.
If America is so scared of China, why are we hell bent in becoming China?
just without the hope in the future, investment in human capital, rise in living standards etc..
But we're doing it for profit, so it's OK.
The same reason this administration does all the things they point their finger and accuse everyone else of doing. They're traitorous scumbags and hypocrites.
Their problem with China is the supposed atheism, and that they're not christian fundamentalists.
It’d be a shame if anonymous types started working on poisoning all publicly accessible cameras with ai poison pills that brick whatever model you try to run on the footage
I read that glow in the dark material will trigger an ir motion sensor. So don't plant small flags coated with glow in the dark paint across from the cameras because it will cause them to take and send thousands of useless images and make them think their camera is broken.
Most of them will trigger from reflected IR, which is easy to do with some metallic mylar. Those emergency blankets cut into strips should work like a charm.
I work in security engineering, including massive video systems. With any commercial unit made in the last 5 years and any software past entry level consumer grade this is a non-issue. Especially if someone is using descriptive visual search when pulling up video vs just scanning through every motion event.
Or, they'll just develop downstream garbage filters and effectively ignore the little flags. Sure, some energy will be wasted, but it won't be occupying too many analyst brain cells.
Source: I have such a setup at home. My camera goes crazy detecting motion in the dark, CPU usage goes up. Main thing I notice? CPU temp rises from 50C to 55C. That's it.
While they're at it, why not just hack the government to reverse last year's election, amirite?
I know most of us loved Mr Robot and watching dinozzo and abby double team a keyboard and Wolverine getting a blowy and all that fun stuff, but that really isn't how things work.
These aren't off the shelf pre-trained models. The model is a big part of the company's product and, increasingly, the cost of training is being partially offloaded to customers under the guise of "tune the model to your data".
And IF we have a Bones situation where someone has inscribed a virus onto human remains to destroy a one of a kind machine or whatever: That is what version control is for. "Hmm. The May 2025 model isn't working. Okay, switch back to April"
Also, these "models" are a lot closer to just running OCR on a feed and logging which traffic camera saw one of the flagged license plates.
You watch too much tv. All you need is to degrade the quality of the recorded video on any camera exposed to the public internet enough for ai to have divergent results due to how ambiguous the images captured are. There are thousands of hobby projects that let you browse actual feeds from such cameras and usually that means you can get hardware metadata and in most cases change how the video is recorded by patching the driver running on the already publicly accessed cameras. Why make an exaggerated strawman argument while at the same time pretending you know better than everyone else?
Add any that aren't shown by submitting them to OpenStreetMap.
Stay strapped
My residence has a Ring doorbell. I wish that I owned the house, so that it was never installed in the first place.
I read recently that the lidar on many self driving cars can wreck the CCD on most phones. I don't know how it works, but maybe parking one of the cars by your front door will solve your problem.
Cheaper to buy a low wattage engraving laser module. It'll do the deed.
AI is only looking for the color someone is.
Green high powered lasers, they can burn cmos sensors. Also the iPhone and some car lidar sensors can burn cmos sensors.
Not the question is if the Flock plate readers are susceptible to this.
They use a basic ir sensor to trigger the camera, they're just a cheap trail camera that sends images when motion is detected. You could put a black sticker over the ir sensor and then they would be wondering why it's not taking photos.