At 05:29 PM 6/22/2001 -0700, Greg Broiles wrote:
At 06:08 PM 6/22/2001 -0400, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
Also, what can take out a surveillance camera from a distance? An Edmund Scientific laser? How about the ones in a dark glass bowl?
I have wondered about this but don't have answers. One direction of thought and research which might be productive is nondestructively temporarily disabling the camera, perhaps by flooding its light sensor with a focused beam of light, like a flashlight or laser - it's going to compensate for that level of lighting, leaving the rest of the frame underexposed, as long as it's misled by that local brightness.
Also, if you're monkeying with cop cameras, that *would* probably be obstruction of justice or interfering with a police officer or whatever your local "don't fuck with the cops" statute is.
No need to use something so targeted at the cop camera, just install rear-facing infrared floods and keep them on all the time. (Cadillac drivers with the new night-driving, IR, heads-up displays will be particularly upset..) The IR cut-off filters of most cameras are too broad to block invisible near IR, so the floods will cause the AGC to greatly darken the image as described above. steve