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/r/conspiracy kids discovers public city weather and traffic cameras that have been around Since the 00s
It’s pretty cool. You can change where they point and zoom in/out. Usually can’t do that with public cameras
My personal experience with these types of camera is based on a conversation I had with a friend who’s a public defender in washington state. She said it can be nearly impossible to figure out who owns or put up all the random cameras you see at traffic intersections. Also good luck trying to subpoena the footage. And this is from someone who has greater access to government information than the typical citizen and h…
Is it not possible to destroy them and then find the owner by determining who has standing for the case?
My personal experience with these types of camera is based on a conversation I had with a friend who’s a public defender in washington state. She said it can be nearly impossible to figure out who owns or put up all the random cameras you see at traffic intersections. Also good luck trying to subpoena the footage. And this is from someone who has greater access to government information than the typical citizen and h…
Where is the conspiracy? I thought the US government had been surveiling its cities via aerial technology. Is the conspiracy that these are unsecured?
I don't think people have internalized the fact that the US gov has surveillance drones in holding patterns over most US metropolitan areas. Every time I've seen someone poke around one of those persistence ADSB/radar maps, they have gone through the stages of discovery: "What are those circles?" "Surveillance drones." "Haha, no, really, what are they? Planes circling the airport?" "No, that (points to thin circle) i…
Another example: most cities have systems that can pinpoint a gunshot to a block radius anywhere in the city so that police can respond quickly.
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Is it not possible to destroy them and then find the owner by determining who has standing for the case?
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
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Is it not possible to destroy them and then find the owner by determining who has standing for the case?
I was thinking the same thing -- obscure its view with a few well-placed paintballs and see who shows up to clean it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What determines what's a retail store and what's a house? Zoning? What if a place is zoned multipurpose commercial/residential, where there are both public offices and private apartments occupying undifferentiated sibling units of the same building? I would assume there would have to be some common-sense or explicit claim being made that a place is private property.
It doesn't really work that way. The entirety of the situation is taken into account. What matters is what you knew, what you should have known, what you could be expected to know, what you were told, what you observed, what you were thinking, what actions you took, and why you did it, etc.... and how all of these things line up with your local laws which will vary to a degree. If you walked into the place confused b…
Let's instead talk about legal liability, and how corporations seek to discharge it in their delivery of products/services.
If I'm programming a political auto-dialer, there are rules about which numbers it's legally allowed to call, and which numbers it legally cannot. It can't call people's cell-phones, for example. If I don't want to get the people who buy one of these things in trouble (and then get sued by them), I have to program this device to follow these rules.
In such a case, it's not a matter of resolving the mens rea from committing such an act anyway; it's a question of how to avoid getting into a situation where my motivations (or the motivations of the purchaser) could ever possibly come into question. I don't want to come into court with a defense; I want to be bulletproof from being brought into court.
So, now, an analogy: if I'm programming a lifelogging-drone-as-a-service that people pay to follow them around all the time they're in "public space"—which, from what I recall, includes commercial spaces without access restrictions, e.g. retail shops, but does not include private residences—then what rules must I program this drone to follow about "what constitutes a public space", to avoid me (or a customer) ever being brought into court on charges of surveilling private property? (It's okay if such rules are next-to-impossible to resolve from the limited sensory data + local regulatory databases the drone has access to. The point isn't to construct such a drone; just to speak of more cut-and-dry case replacement for a human actor.)
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I don't think people have internalized the fact that the US gov has surveillance drones in holding patterns over most US metropolitan areas. Every time I've seen someone poke around one of those persistence ADSB/radar maps, they have gone through the stages of discovery: "What are those circles?" "Surveillance drones." "Haha, no, really, what are they? Planes circling the airport?" "No, that (points to thin circle) i…
I don't think people really think about it. Another example: most cities have systems that can pinpoint a gunshot to a block radius anywhere in the city so that police can respond quickly.
The expert testimony did have the engineer saying "The accuracy is invented by sales and marketing. The pinpoint is just a starting point. It's in a radius around that." Which I found amusing because it seemed obvious to me.
It did improve my ability to sell, though. These caveats are useless when you're selling. You can always explain afterwards.
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.
The website appears to be compromised. It's hosting and redirecting to webstores/spam/porn/etc. It seems an enterprising agent decided to start building and selling his own covert camera boxes but I wonder how old these things are now. Perhaps they've been forgotten?
1. Host an application on some VPS with a static IP on a domain.
2. Destroy the VPS server but don't change the domain entry.
3. Boom, domain now seems to be hosting porn or other random stuff eventually as the IP in the A record gets used for other things.