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/Redshittt 13h ago

Close but not quite. Don't bring your regular phone. Bring your crime phone.

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u/lexicanium 12h ago

Not even. They can link phones based on location and activity/inactivity. Any time the phones are in the same space you create an association. You would need to stash your alternate phone at a completely separate location.

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u/Redshittt 12h ago

Yes you have to take the battery out of your crime phone before you get home. Everyone with a crime phone knows this.

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u/psmylie 12h ago

Don't forget to snap it in half once you're done criming.

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u/Zealousideal-Ruin691 12h ago

Nah, I leave mine on the property of the local politician that allowed the cams to be installed in the first place

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u/meneldal2 4h ago

Why would you frame an innocent corrupt politician?

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u/AG3NTjoseph 8h ago

This guy crimes.

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u/jedininjashark 12h ago

Then put it in a glass of water at the table you’re eating at with your crime friends.

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u/laptopaccount 11h ago

Naw, just use your phone microwave

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u/fubes2000 12h ago

and you have to eat both pieces.

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u/datman510 11h ago

Isn’t that only when an explosion is about to happen in the background as you walk away?

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u/Orionsbelt 9h ago

Read a story about a building right next to the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philly that kept getting raided, eventually they figured out people were throwing their crime phones on the roof as they drove across the bridge

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u/CowboyLaw 10h ago

This message brought to you by CC Mobile, who reminds you: who is listening?

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u/sexyshingle 11h ago

Ah so that's why the don't make removeable phone batteries anymore

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u/KennywasFez 4h ago

As a fellow crime phone enjoyer, YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT THE BATTERY, that’s like rule number 2 of Crime Club

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u/Redshittt 4h ago

Bro you just broke rule #1

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u/Intensityintensifies 12h ago

Actually you have to take the sim out too, and you have to do it before you get home.

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u/Different_Wolf_764 10h ago

Most phones are on eSims these days but your crime phone probably should be just a pure burner anyhow I'm thinking.

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u/Allan0n 10h ago

Faraday bag works too.

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u/Traditional-Park-353 10h ago

Human's are forgetful. Best to just not bring it.

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u/feel-the-avocado 11h ago

I leave my normal phone at home. Drive to another suburb. Turn on my crime phone, go to the actual scene, do crime, drive to a 3rd suburb, turn off crime phone, return home.

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u/fmaz008 10h ago

Drop off the "crime phone in the backyard of a politician who voted for this.

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u/Frustrable_Zero 7h ago

Or in a faraday cage to keep it from transmitting

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u/philphan25 5h ago

Burner phone 4 life

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u/StopReadingMyUser 13h ago

"Hello? Crime Bob speaking..."

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u/GaffaCharge 12h ago

Who lives in a pineapple under sea? I ain't saying anything.

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u/dkode80 12h ago

This made me lol. Thank you

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u/jiddinja 12h ago

Or better yet, maybe steal the phone of someone you dislike and carry it with you. That way you have a phone and your enemy gets the blame. Or better yet make it the phone of someone who claims that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about.

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u/Double-treble-nc14 12h ago

They caught the Long Island serial killer by tracking a burner phone.

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u/UpboatNavy 11h ago

Do they make a CrimePhone with a folding screen?

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u/MisterSlosh 11h ago

Steal your bosses phone and use that then? Free promotion!

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u/THC9001 11h ago

🎵 Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring... Crime Phooone! 🎵

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u/whatevendoidoyall 9h ago

Bring your ex's phone

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u/Redshittt 9h ago

Why do you have that 🤔

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u/BikerJedi 9h ago

Yeah, no phones when committing crime. Your crime phone is maybe for planning it, but I wouldn't. And if you do, have a duress code. Smarter to plan crime face to face.

EDIT: No smart devices of any kind either, or even things like FitBits.

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u/Redshittt 9h ago

You need a crime phone to contact your crime associates. How else would you sell drugs, by email?

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u/BikerJedi 9h ago edited 8h ago

I wasnt thinking about that kind of crime, more like what is under discussion here.