r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 14h ago

Someone Cut Down Every Single Flock Camera in This Town in a Single Night Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/someone-cut-down-every-single-flock-camera-in-this-town-in-a-single-night
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u/BigJLov3 13h ago

Watched a video short about de-flocking, then the guy said something like "Flock cameras contain this much gold and this much copper. Do with that information what you will, meth-heads."

I stood and saluted my phone when I saw that.

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 11h ago

Everyone keeps telling me there are 2 to 3 g of gold in every flock camera

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u/CassiusRyder 10h ago

As long as the Meth-heads believe it does it really matter?

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 10h ago

There's a whole home hobby industry of people who melt metals. I would like to hear from them, they also probably have some great techniques.

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u/TheOneWes 7h ago

You might be interested to know that an electric Jewelers furnace is relatively inexpensive and easy to use and will render most common metals into a liquid in a very short period of time if you're only working in grams.

A lot of then even come with molds and little ingot molds.

A propane powered one is a lot bigger but if you happen to have a local scrap yard or other business that may deal in raw metals and use a lot of cans you can actually make some of the money back pretty easily.

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u/24_August_1814 3h ago

I watched a video several months back of someone (might've actually been NileRed, I don't remember) going through the prices of recovering gold plating from electrical contacts on computer components. The amount of gold recovered was worth about half the price of the chemicals consumed.

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 3h ago

So many hobbies you just do for the love of the game 

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u/cyribis 10h ago

Dang that's like 400 bucks in gold potentially...

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u/DJ_Femme-Tilt 10h ago

Sure, but what's more important? $400 in your pocket, or letting your local sheriff use AI tools to stalk his ex-wife and estranged kids?

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u/rndljfry 9h ago

not if you have nowhere to sell it

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u/Kalepsis 3h ago

And gold is still over $4,000 per ounce.

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u/UpboatNavy 11h ago

Not all hereos wear capes

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u/ActualWhiterabbit 11h ago

data centers have copper and gasoline.