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by tristor 454 days ago
There is only one scenario that remotely makes sense for why this would be even necessary and that's fleet vehicles with dash cams. Even in that case, there are way better approaches because there are dashcams designed for fleet usage that upload to central servers over WiFi.

Basically this scenario only makes sense if there is something horribly wrong elsewhere to the point that the only reasonable thing to do is fix things to involve a network, not to try to figure out how to scale a sneakernet operation.

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> There is only one scenario that remotely makes sense for why this would be even necessary and that's fleet vehicles with dash cams.

Or, 1000 action cameras (GoPro or equivalent). I only know of one outfit that currently does that, and they definitely would need to dump all 1000 at once to keep production rolling.

I’m pretty sure, although not certain, this is an employee of MrBeast or an affiliate.

Agreed. They've stated they used 1100 cams for Beast Games simultaneously.
Bodycams for any number of security orgs (military, police, security guard) in any number of places around the world?

I mean, if done right you'd use some kind of wireless-while-they-charge at the end of the day. But given the wide world I could easily see someone somewhere going down this path.

This was my bet too. Sounds more like bodycam work than dashcam or "film production". NDA may be because they work for law enforcement.