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Musician-turning-tech anarchist (?) Benn Jordan is making a very interesting series of videos about Flock cameras, their poor safety, and their gray-area interf
by gorgonical 5mo ago
Musician-turning-tech anarchist (?) Benn Jordan is making a very interesting series of videos about Flock cameras, their poor safety, and their gray-area interfacing with local governments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMIwNiwQewQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB0gr7Fh6lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
I recommend them.
- boriskourt 5mo agoSuper worth a watch. Lots of technical tidbits also.
- waNpyt-menrew 5mo agoSomeone complaining about local governments having data while directing them to YouTube, whose owner does surveillance at a scale far exceeding all local governments of all countries combined, is ironic. Why don’t these people use Peertube at least. Fact of the matter is they’d like to personally profit off the same nonsense they complain about. This person has a million subscribers, they aren’t some random whistleblower. It’s a job, like all media, generating outrage. If all of them used peertube maybe we’d have a solid competitor.
- ceejayoz 5mo agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
- puppykito 5mo ago??? It is very clearly because YouTube has a higher reach than any other platform in that space.
- komali2 5mo agoDuring the KMT military dictatorship in Taiwan, the KMT used the radio to spread its anti-democratic propaganda and disparage pro-democracy activists. Activists meanwhile spread their messages via pirate radio.
- mmcnickle 5mo ago> Fact of the matter is they’d like to personally profit off the same nonsense they complain about. Benn Jordan's YouTube channel is a registered Nonprofit https://www.patreon.com/posts/nonprofit-has-82858569 https://www.patreon.com/posts/nonprofit-has-82858569
- platevoltage 5mo agoHasan Piker owns a house. Lets all complain about that too!
- AndrewKemendo 5mo agoWow thank you for sharing this I had no idea this guy existed! There’s more of us techno anarchists out there apparently!
- platevoltage 5mo agoYeah I discovered this guy because a video about Aphex Twin appeared on my feed.
- seemaze 5mo agoThose were great to watch, thanks! Also, I can't help but feel like I'm watching a young Dr. Emmett Brown.. Great Scott!!
- devin 5mo agoBenn is the best. His most recent video is about Ring cameras.
- kgwxd 5mo agoAnd Data center noise pollution before that. It's the only channel I subscribe to knowing full well every video is going to infuriate me.
- jkestner 5mo agoBenn's videos along with this one from a very chill middle-aged engineer/state rep made the difference in swaying our town to discontinue its Flock contract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbE5ks7dFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwbE5ks7dFg
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoYep business reform has tons of videos on privacy related stuff. I like him quite a bit.
- stronglikedan 5mo agoI'd also recommend Louis Rossman's videos on the topic, including how to get involved.
- amanaplanacanal 5mo agoLouis is big on right to repair too.
- boc 5mo agoLove the Flashbulb!
- xracy 5mo agoI think his comment about "why dogs might provide actual neighborhood safety" is a good reminder that the thing that makes communities safe is "knowing your neighbors." You don't get safety by building a castle with a moat and a million cameras. You get safety by building a community with context that can respond without having to just "react" to the 6s version of "what happened".
- snerbles 5mo agoI'm reminded of prepper forum discussions. Where some do little more than hoard supplies, weapons and gadgets yet don't network and build communities. In an actual societal breakdown scenario these isolated individuals will become loot drops for others who actually band together.
- IAmBroom 5mo agoIt's not that they'll be able to call on one another - you can't guarantee who else will be around after The Bad Event (whatever it is). It's that they don't have the basic strength of building alliances in the first place - something every kid is supposed to learn through the joys and pains of playing together. Bullies are not generally the popular ones, but neither are the loners. To put it another way: castles can't survive siege forever. They are a delaying tactic until outside help can arrive. "The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated, Returns us that his powers are yet not ready To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king, We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy." -- Henry V, Act 3, scene 3
- Dove 5mo agoI agree that there is a parallel between governments and corporations multiplying surveillance and preppers impractically multiplying gadgets. I perceive both to be responding to some sort of psychological issue relating to control or insecurity, not to be practically pursuing resilience. A government with aggressive surveillance ambitions but a decaying police department and justice system looks to me very much like the guy with a mountain of guns and ammo but no parallel investment in something like battlefield medicine. Whatever you're telling yourself about the reason for what you're doing, it is manifestly not correct, at least going by other investments I would expect to see and find neglected.