Those are perfectly effective, they're just easily removed. Something permanent like epoxy would be crossing the line into vandalism. I imagine nobody wants to take one for the team, seeing as how they're on camera.
That'd easily avoided by first putting a sticker over the hole and only later injecting some epoxy through the sticker. Do it neatly and they could even remove the sticker once the epoxy has hardened and paint over the former hole in a similar colour as the machine.
Putting a sticker on the camera inconveniences the college, who have to send someone to remove it. They are an innocent third party with no power to replace the vending machine with one without a camera.
Putting epoxy on the camera inconveniences the vending machine owner, who has to replace it. They're the assholes who put the camera there in the first place, and when they replace the machine they can easily put in one with no camera.
If you're going to engage in civil disobedience, why not do it right?
>>Putting a sticker on the camera inconveniences the college, who have to send someone to remove it.
The college doesn't care(or even know) about the facial recognition functionality, so presumably they don't care about this sticker either. If the sticker stops the machine from working, then the manufacturer would be called to fix it.
