Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI

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According to the FBI, the group of Boogaloos in northern Nevada are installing Amazon's Ring security system —which has been criticized for partnering with law enforcement— to protect themselves... from law enforcement

Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
An FBI memo says group members installed the devices after learning how a suspect killed two FBI agents by spotting them through a doorbell camera during a raid.
vice.com
5:53 AM · Sep 3, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bgwm/boogaloo-bois-are-using-amazon-ring-doorbells-to-protect-them-from-the-fbi

Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system. Ads for the product make no secret of who they’re marketing to: nervous new parents who want to spy on babysitters, amateur sleuths investigating (Amazon) package theft, or wealthy people hoping to keep tabs on multiple vacant homes.

But the billion-dollar company probably didn’t factor Hawaiian shirt-clad anti-government insurgents into their marketing strategy.

According to an internal security memo by the FBI from earlier this year, a group of so-called “Boogaloo Bois” from northern Nevada installed Amazon’s Ring security systems. The goal? “To enhance operational security capabilities in preparation for potential raids by the FBI,” according to the memo.

The memo was obtained by the watchdog group Property of the People via a freedom-of-information request as part of its “January 6 Project,” which, according to the group’s founder Ryan Shapiro, is “liberating documents about intelligence and law enforcement operations in the run-up to, and wake of the attempted coup.”

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[msongs]

1. amazon cares about making $$ nt

[Marcuse]

2. A camera is a camera.

The target of their investigation saw the agents approaching through a doorbell camera (it’s unclear if it was specifically the Amazon ring system), picked up a gun, and ambushed them by opening fire.

[crickets]

3. Great.

Fortunately for the FBI, the Ring is apparently easy to hack.

[MagickMuffin]

4. The Feds don't have to make an arrest at their residences

Catch em out and about arrest them get search warrant and search their homes, offices, etc.