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Any techie camera-hacking folks out there?

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Shelma1:
My neighbors are harassing me—to the point that I'm suing them—and for months I've been sure they're disabling my Blink security cameras at night. They already broke into some wildlife cameras on my property, took out the SD cards, deleted the videos of themselves approaching the cameras and put the cards back in. Tonight I set up a cheap Panasonic video camera in a window in my house, and captured my neighbor driving down their driveway, turning off their car, and then pointing some sort of device—a laser? Infrared light? at the security camera on my front door. Whatever they're using is not handheld, because it moves smoothly up and down without any wobble whatsoever. They wait until dark, so my footage is awful. I lightened it in iMovie (can you tell I'm not a videographer?), but it's super grainy.

Does anyone have any idea what the heck they could be doing...and how I might get better video of them without using infrared light? I can't tell you how much this is creeping me out. If you want to see the bad video, PM me. Thanks!

cathyslife:
I don’t know much about it, but on TV shows I have seen bank robbers point a gadget at cameras and it makes a big white blob in the video. In essence, whiting everything out while they are up to no good. Maybe it’s that? Are they gearing up to rob you or what? Why are they doing all this, just for fun because they are jerks?

Mimi the Cat:
I've a low tech answer get a big agressive dog they'll think twice about coming in.

Of course you could always go and ask them what they are up to.

Mantis:
The bigger questions is WHY would they do this?

Shelma1:
I can't possibly imagine what's in their minds, really. I don't understand why people harass other people. What a waste of precious time and effort, IMO.

I guess what I'm asking is, can anyone recommend a video camera good for shooting in low light? They seem to be able to defeat infrared devices, but not a regular video camera behind glass. In the meantime I'm planning to move because these people are not right in the head.

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