# Devices That Can Actually Detect Flock Safety Cameras
#  — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_ubTeLL3k

You might have noticed recently that
there are cameras with solar panels,
these um
poles being placed everywhere all across
the United States. Or maybe you've
watched Ben Jordan's video. Flock
cameras are being installed everywhere
and I've decided to spend the day
hunting for them and going over an
entire video on how you can pretty much
snoop onto them as they snoop onto us.
Now, we've gone over a lot of different
custom firmware on this channel and most
of which have recently gotten updated
with Flock detection and this is kind of
a big deal. Not all Flock detectors are
made the same. Some are better than
others. Some are a little bit more
updated than others and you have
developers really spearheading this
entire operation to give you back a
sense of privacy and alert you when
stuff like this is going on. I'm in the
middle of the sticks right now and I
think I haven't touched grass in
forever. So, the bugs are loving me.
But, if you're new to this channel, hey,
how's it going? I'm your pal Cal and
today we're going over devices that you
can use to detect Flock safety cameras.
Now, if you haven't seen Ben Jordan's
video, I've linked a couple of his
videos down below in the description
that go over Flock safety as well as the
cameras and their vulnerabilities.
And it's it's it's a lot of concerning,
not just a little bit. And a lot of the
devices that we go over simply do
passive listening. We're not breaking
any laws. I don't [music] condone any
illegal activity and everything being
done and that I go over is for
educational purposes only. So, I know
that these things are a hot topic as
well as um
being just downright disgusting because
the Flock camera that I'm actually
testing a lot of these Flock detectors
in front of is placed
almost strategically in front of a
playground.
Now, one of the people leading the
de-Flock movement is Colonel Panic. And
if you haven't seen one of his uh
devices, I've gone over this device in
particular in my short-form video, and
it's called the OUI Spy. And it runs a
custom firmware called Unified Blue.
Unified Blue's open source, as well as
this entire [music] project being open
source. Now, you can get an OUI Spy from
his website that I'll link down below
called, I believe, Colonial Panic Tech.
And it's a simple PCB that you could
even breadboard. The man is doing the
most when it comes to making sure that
each and every person has a tool that
can cost under, I want to say, $10 that
will alert you when a flock camera is
detected. And Unified Blue is way more
than just flock detection. There's a
whole lot to it. I want to say three
different custom firmware that all give
you an aspect of counter surveillance.
Now, not all flock [music] detectors
sniff out flock cameras the same. As a
matter of fact, some of them do them
completely differently than just
sniffing out for MAC addresses. The OUI
Spy in particular sniffs them in
promiscuous mode, which gives you a
lower rate of getting false positives.
Now, another device that sniffs out
flock cameras actually pretty accurately
is the Nian box. And we've gone over
this device in the past. The custom
firmware behind it is constantly
updated, and it has an edge over other
custom firmware. It's also got amazing
capabilities when it comes to the 2.4
GHz band, but there's no internal GPS.
So, it doesn't war drive. It simply
detects and allows you to fox hunt just
in case you can't see the flock camera
that it's detected nearby. Now, I want
to take a second to talk about war
driving real quick, because war driving
plays a huge part when it comes to flock
detecting. You have custom firmware like
just Kamikoco's Marauder, which is
arguably one of the most classic custom
firmwares, well maintained, constantly
updated, open source. It's a good
platform.
You can now war drive and detect flock
cameras and be alerted if you detect a
flock cameras while you're war driving,
and it'll show up in your CSV logs for
either you want to upload to WDG or
wiggle.net or other open-source
databases dedicated just to flock
detection. A device that you can
actually get started with really cheap
and affordable wise is a cheap yellow
display, which is an ESP32 room 32
display that can run either Marauder or
pork chop by Zomer Octo that have flock
detection acts on body camera detection,
a lot of different detection built into
the custom firmware. And if you wanted
to go even cheaper, you could grab an
ESP32 C5 and flash a variety of
different custom firmware from Unified
Blue to the biscuit DIY biscuit firmware
where you can use the biscuit manager
app, which is arguably one of the best
flock detectors cuz it alerts you while
you're driving. Now, this is a really
inexpensive way to get started on flock
war driving or war driving in general,
and you get an array of different custom
firmware within the firmwares that you
choose.
There's a lot of different ways to
detect flock and the point of this video
is to alert you of how simple it can be.
It's not about the device, it's about
the firmware and you can run different
custom firmware. On the CYD, you don't
just you're not limited to one or two
custom firmware. You have a variety on
espterminator.com
as well as other websites or you can
launch Be More Sally's flasher and
switch between custom firmware on the
fly. Another thing that you could do is
DIY yourself a CYD Hail Hound that
actually has flock you built into it.
This is an entire DIY build. You can get
an official kit from hailhound.com or
you can find the parts and assemble the
entire thing yourself. Now, flock
detection is something that you will
find in a lot of custom firmware and
that's a good thing. Like being able to
detect when you're being surveilled and
maybe at your own discretion contribute
to a crowd-sourced database plays a big
part in everybody else's safety.
We don't want to live in an Orwellian
world. I don't want to live in an
Orwellian world, and you can play your
part by literally just getting an
ESP32-C5,
either a Xiao or a dev kit, or you can
do what's called a cluster, where you
can pair a C5 or a cluster of C5s and
have each one dedicated to different
things. Either you want one node is just
solely sniffing out for BLE card
skimmers, like credit card skimmers, or
have a couple of nodes dedicated just to
flock detection, and to be honest with
you, you only need one. Or you can have
them dedicated to different channels
sniffing out Wi-Fi networks while you're
war driving. There's a multitude of ways
to get started, and it's not just based
on the device. It's all about what you
want to add to your arsenal, and if
something is specialized the way it is.
Now, there are also a lot of unique
boards that you can add for flock
detection, like a Walk Dynamics dual C5
mini or dual C5 that's powered by two
ESP32-C5s,
one that's typically supposed to be used
with a Flipper Zero, and you can use it
with a Flipper Zero, or you can add a
battery backpack board and have it be a
standalone device. And the reason why
that's pretty cool is because you can
have one C5 running the biscuit firmware
or unified blue, and the other on the
display running the Marauder firmware,
so that while you're war driving, you
can detect flock cameras in real time.
Now, the reason why I like these boards
in particular is because the GPS module
they're using is the Quectel LC29H,
which is a very welcome upgrade from the
ATGM336H.
I've gone over all of my favorite
devices that I personally like to use,
and I do have to point out that Colonel
Panic's OUI spy really does play a big
part on
making sure it detects flock cameras
accurately. And if you were to pair that
with another device, either a Nyan Box
or a Hail Hound, or more specifically a
biscuit in particular, the detection
while war driving for being able to
upload to a crowdsource database plays a
big part. And I would encourage you to
because you can literally get started
not with some fancy gadget. It doesn't
have to cost $200,
you can get started with nothing but an
ESP32-C5.
And a couple people have been asking me
how to get started. We have different
videos on how to DIY your own biscuit
using flasher.biscuit.shop.us,
but you have a variety of different
custom firmware available not just on
GitHub but on ESP Terminator.com, pork
chop on the CYD, Hail Hound, the Nyan
firmware. There is so many custom
firmware that are implementing counter
surveillance tools in our everyday lives
that way you actually have something to
protect yourself against
mass surveillance. Now, as I mentioned
before, you don't need nothing fancy.
You can literally get started with an
ESP32-C5,
but I've put all of the product links
down below, all the web flashers, all
the GitHub repos, and a few resources to
get you started. All of these things can
really help you in this effort to try to
deflock what's been going on because the
public doesn't seem to really
understand how bad this can be. This
isn't about safety. The cons outweigh
the pros, at least on my opinion. And I
would implore you [music] to look at Ben
Jordan's video and Louis Rossmann's
video and a couple of other awesome
creators and developers who have
been leading the charge to try to inform
the public on how detrimental all this
stuff could possibly be. I really hope
you guys enjoyed this video. We'll be
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We'll see you next time.