Driving home last night, and saw a flock camera pointed in to a field and not at the roadway.
This made me unreasonably happy.
Given how the cameras use ball mount clamps and simple hex tooling, this is a very effective DoS attack. The camera isn't disabled, and is still reporting as normal, just not uploading any traffic, because there is none.
YES!!!
@bosh This begs a question...
The device camera is triggered to record by an IR motion sensor... and then the yolov3_tiny crops the camera frames for objects before uploading to AWS.
So... if the camera lens was painted black, and the IR sensor was free to detect motion... Then it stands to reason that the yolov3_tiny model would detect nothing and upload nothing.
This means, no clips of blackout video are being uploaded. But, once someone remotely access the video feed, then the problem is obvious.
When I was testing the cam I had in my garage I found blocking the IR motion sensor prevented video / object detection routines. so a piece of vinyl tape over the hole under the lens also stopped the device from doing a thing.... and viewing the camera feed would not be obvious why recording isn't being triggered...
kajer :notverified:
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