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Pretty tricky by the cops to turn off power directly and to steal his cameras. Shows that if you are concerned something like this would happen to you that you need to invest in more resilient solutions. Probably something with batteries and also hidden.

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They did this to Afroman, too. Though, in his case, they didn't lead with the panel and the result is the infamous video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy7XO-SCI0 It makes you wonder how much of an effect this incident has had on protocols.

But, yeah, depending on your threat matrix, you might want to consider hidden trail cams with their own cell service.

Next step would be to cut the cells too.

Trail cams (and other hidden cams) often have local SD backup. Better break out the “broom,” rip open the walls, and steal every electronic device just in case.

Hm what if he burries some storage server (with UPS) in the yard to which this is streamed. They are never going to find it. Especially if the networking is wireless, but even tracking down where ethernet (copper or fiber) goes is hard.

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