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Flock's fastest-growing business is 60 mph police drones that can read license plates from the sky (www.techspot.com)

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Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.

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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

My main irritation that spurred the comment you replied to is in response to "heheheh drone interception is so easy, I personally invented 500 techniques."

I'm not a drone expert. Maybe you are. But that person clearly is not.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Oh no for sure, that guy's talking nonsense. You can build a directed and relatively quite high power microwave antenna at home no problem - but building an n-tron (I'll be fucked if I can remember which type of '-tron' it is, I confess. Gravitron?) with enough power to take out a drone from more than a few meters away is well beyond what's feasible to construct by yourself at home.