Inside one of the cameras: "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com" http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ Good job fellas.
Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government
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#172Anybody else afraid to click some of the links in that post until you hear about legality of accessing (and controlling!) a DEA camera that's likely part of an active investigation?
Only 350m people in the world need to worry, the rest of us are outside of your (legal) jurisdiction.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even more convenient. And when the law enforcement purpose needs them to be fixed on a certain spot, then turn off public access until the investigation is over.
And by polling them to see when public access is disabled, you know exactly when and where stakeouts are happening!
Could you offer this as a SaaS? Any good literature on how to develop pricing models aimed at criminals?
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "conspiracy"? I'm not trying to be funny here, I think it's worth examining what precisely you mean by that word when you use it. It's a word with a specific meaning that is frequently abused in wishy-washy ways, often used to describe loony beliefs not grounded in reality, or beliefs that run contrary to the official narrative.
If the official narrative is that we aren't being constantly surveilled, then this submission pales in comparison to what should be on the front page. But I don't think that is the official narrative, per se.
Is the official narrative posted on the official narrative report somewhere for reference?
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#175A lot of statements and theories about these camera's from all sorts of directions, but they're just pole cams. LEA's have been using pole cams since before I was born (I'm 34). I worked in law enforcement as an analyst and spent some time staring at pole cams that were setup to surveil known drug dealers or criminal gang members. To do one correctly (i.e. legally) you typically need a warrant or a court order, but i…
The point is the bloody things are unsecured . It's one thing for LAPD to throw up a camera that looks in your windows with a warrant (not convinced they have one, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt). It's another thing for LAPD to throw up a camera that looks in your windows AND LEAVE IT UNSECURED ON THE INTERNET .
Mistakes in areas generally off limits to regular folks seem more outrageous because LEOs are trusted with powers of surveillance and lethal enforcement of the law.
But LEOs are people and people make mistakes. It happens and when it does it can be scary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WgxUoky4kg
It is an understatement to describe LE as not IT people. In general LE struggles greatly with technology and the ability to recruit technology people.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't imagine these tactics will end well for anyone caught doing it. I don't recommend that.
Pretend to be innocent and mistakenly drop a heavy steel bar stolen from the gym on the camera and run away.
opps, I accidentally dropped this heavy steel bar while on a pole 30-40' off the ground.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "conspiracy"? I'm not trying to be funny here, I think it's worth examining what precisely you mean by that word when you use it. It's a word with a specific meaning that is frequently abused in wishy-washy ways, often used to describe loony beliefs not grounded in reality, or beliefs that run contrary to the official narrative.
If the official narrative is that we aren't being constantly surveilled, then this submission pales in comparison to what should be on the front page. But I don't think that is the official narrative, per se.
Note that if you're using the term "conspiracy" in the strict sense, it's not contrary to the official narrative. The official narrative for 9/11 for instance, the 9/11 Commission Report, is terrorists conspired to crash airplanes.
In the colloquial wishy-washy sense, that report is not a conspiracy theory, despite being a theory about a conspiracy. However every other theory that disagrees with it is a conspiracy theory.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
I can't imagine these tactics will end well for anyone caught doing it. I don't recommend that.
It's fine as long as you don't get caught. Make sure there are no cameras around before you do it.
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#179A lot of statements and theories about these camera's from all sorts of directions, but they're just pole cams. LEA's have been using pole cams since before I was born (I'm 34). I worked in law enforcement as an analyst and spent some time staring at pole cams that were setup to surveil known drug dealers or criminal gang members. To do one correctly (i.e. legally) you typically need a warrant or a court order, but i…
The point is the bloody things are unsecured . It's one thing for LAPD to throw up a camera that looks in your windows with a warrant (not convinced they have one, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt). It's another thing for LAPD to throw up a camera that looks in your windows AND LEAVE IT UNSECURED ON THE INTERNET .
Totally agree, which is why I recommended people contact their local Attorney's General if they live in a state or city where one of these are located.
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#180Where is the conspiracy? I thought the US government had been surveiling its cities via aerial technology. Is the conspiracy that these are unsecured?
Also worth noting that just about every redlight intersection has cameras mounted on top pointing at traffic in each direction. It's pretty much impossible to navigate through a city anonymously in a vehicle. Now with facial recognition software getting so advanced I'd water it's impossible to walk through a city anonymously as well. They don't necessarily need aerial imagery when every intersection has HD cameras po…
Video-based lane occupancy detection is widely used by traffic lights, but it's rare for these cameras to be connected to anything other than a trigger module in the signal cabinet. It is conceptually possible to also connect these cameras to a remote monitoring system, but this comes at a very high cost. My city has been one of the stronger proponents of doing so but has only connected a very limited number of intersections due to the expense.