Regretful cities aren’t sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

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      8 hours ago

      They don’t just collect video either. Audio, network traffic, Bluetooth devices, tons of electronic intelligence can still be gotten with covered cameras

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        The Bluetooth tracking is much more sinister than people know. The city I’m in has devices specifically for this placed strategically along with the alpr and cameras. Its fuckin’ wild. Can’t even leave without them tracking you.

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        Really though, don’t do the precious metals part, cuz that’s what will get you caught. Carefully destroying them? Very doable, I strongly suspect.

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          The precious metals content realistically isn’t interesting at all unfortunately. You could make a bit reselling the internal components (like probably not even 3 digits), but the value on the actual copper/etc is negligible. The solar panel is probably the most interesting piece, but the components are cheap as fuck.

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            38 minutes ago

            Its to encourage meth heads who only need 20 bucks and are desperate enough to go to jail for a lil bit of copper

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        21 hours ago

        Welp. It’s too bad the shitty hotel I used to work at got shut down by the city.

        We had TONS of meth heads that would be very appriciative of that information.

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        21 hours ago

        I would have bit of extra respect for a youtuber breaking down to get the precious metals out of specifically flok cameras