Suppose you’re fed up with being video surveilled in public and you object to your neighbor placing your home under 24/7 video surveillance which is fed to a surveillance advertiser (#Amazon). Or you want to kill the video surveillance in vending machines.

laser

Is it practical and affordable to buy laser that can reach across the street and still have enough focus and power to burn a CCD? Can it be done from different angles without the CCD capturing the source before the damage manifests? There is some chatter here on power levels.

Of course it must be precisely controllable as well; obviously no one wants to inadvertently hit an eyeball and blind someone. Which I suppose implies that the laser either needs a well calibrated scope or it needs to be in the visible spectrum so you can see where it lands.

I would really love it if someone would rig up a drone to do this, which could then go down the street and knock out many Amazon Rings.

cyber attack

(Amazon Ring only) A simple cyber attack: if you can find out (social engineer?) the username of the Ring pawn¹, you can deliberately submit wrong passwords until the acct locks. When an Amazon account is suspended, the doorbell no longer functions. Funnily enough. So people with smart homes must constantly obey Amazon’s wishes if they want their home to continue to function. Would love to see that backfire. But it’s unclear if an account locked due to failed passwords goes into the same state of suspension that breaks the doorbell. I just recall a story where someone’s Amazon account was suspended due to some dispute or misunderstanding with Amazon which then broke their doorbell and probably other “smart” (read: dependent) appliances to go out of service.

1. I don’t say “user” because they are being used by Amazon. That means they are a “pawn”.