History Main / CameraSpoofing

** In "[[Recap/ColumboS04E05 Playback]]" the villain, played by Creator/OskarWerner, spliced in a previously recorded camera shot of the study when it was empty, to fool the security guard. Then after he was done killing his mother-in-law in the study, he arranged for the tape of the murder to run on a delay so it would look like he had an alibi for when the security guard saw the video. What ultimately undoes the whole thing is Columbo noticing an invitation to an art gallery that was on the killer's desk in the footage of the shooting, yet had somehow been given to the gallery in question after the supposed time of the murder, meaning he either he retrieved it after the killing or practically stepped across the body twice over to retrieve it after forgetting it.
** In "[[Recap/ColumboS10E03 Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star]]", a fake alibi was created by having an associate of the killer drive over the speed limit past a speeding camera, while wearing a mask printed with a photograph of the killer's face. Colombo realized what had happened when he saw the 'face' had no shadow under the nose.

** In "[[Recap/ColumboS04E05 Playback]]" the villain, played by Creator/OskarWerner, spliced in a previously recorded camera shot of the study when it was empty, to fool the security guard. Then after he was done killing his mother-in-law in the study, he arranged for the tape of the murder to run on a delay so it would look like he had an alibi for when the security guard saw the video. What ultimately undoes the whole thing is Columbo noticing an invitation to an art gallery that was on the killer's desk in the footage of the shooting, yet had somehow been given to the gallery in question after the supposed time of the murder, meaning he either he retrieved it after the killing or practically stepped across the body twice over to get retrieve it after forgetting it.

* In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fanfic ''And the Adventure Continues'' the Jethro/Monty fratello have a program called Auto Ella that buffers the CCTV footage and then uses FacialRecognitionSoftware to identify their faces and start looping the footage at those points, removing them from the cameras. Unfortunately it's easily detected, and most importantly would provide anyone who captured the program before it was wiped with enough biometric data to penetrate any disguise Jethro and Monty might use, so they only use it as a last resort. Another problem arises when Monty is doing an infiltration, sees a snake nesting on a camera and has to get rid of it before it trips the program at the wrong time.

* In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fanfic ''And the Adventure Continues'' the Jethro/Monty fratello have a program called Auto Ella that buffers the CCTV footage and then uses FacialRecognitionSoftware to identify their faces and start looping the footage at those points, removing them from the cameras. Unfortunately it's easily detected, and most importantly would provide anyone who captured the program before it was wiped with enough biometric data to penetrate any disguise Jethro and Monty might use, so they only use it as a last resort.

-->-- ''Literature/FuturesInTheMemoriesMarket'', by Nina Hoffman

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Other's agents in Paris alter the city's security to perceive the Geisterdamen as nothing but frolicking children, our heroes are unable to counter-hack it, but they do manage to alert the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161107#.Ye9CVFlMFPZ child-catchers.]]

* ''Literature:TheStrangerTimes'': Cathy hacks the Pinter Institute and loops footage of empty hallways over the security cameras' actual feeds. This allows Hannah to sneak around undetected.

* ''Film/{{Anon}}'' takes place in a world of total surveillance, as everyone is required to wear eye implants that record everything they see. The authorities then discover there are people who can evade this system when a murder is committed and the killer remains unidentified via this trope.

* ''Series/{{Probe}}'''s "[[Recap/ProbeUntouchedByHumanHands Untouched by Human Hands]]": The characters don't realize at first that the transmission glitch from when they sent in the robot is due to Kingsley replacing the robot's transmission for one he filmed earlier (which shows him in the room).

* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}''. In "The [=McKenna=] Erasure", a hacker freezes the camera image so it just looks like the camera software has locked up. A guard is sent to check the area physically, but the hacker is able to relay his location so the infiltrator can avoid him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', the opening scenes of "Monkey See, Doggy Do" - and, as a result, the first scenes of the series - have Mojo Jojo doing this as one of his precautions while stealing the Anubis Head.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''. In "True Colors", Robin hacks the cameras so the team can infiltrate a Lexcorp agricultural facility. A battle ensues and Luthor is alerted.
-->'''Luthor:''' ''[Hearing explosions and seeing the screens show nothing out of the ordinary]'' [[DeadpanSnarker Well, this placid scene is hardly likely.]]

* In the second book in the ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' series, the kidnapping of an alien Prince is covered up by a criminal hacker who fakes security camera images from an earlier time period. In a later book, reformed hacker Andri performs the same trick with security cams on the 'theme world' Fantasia, to allow two other agents to sneak into the planet’s central research laboratories without attracting unwanted attention.

* ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}'': After they open the [[ItMakesSenseInContext 'Glory Hole']], the soundman gets koshed over the head with the hall mirror and the live feed, from inside the house, cuts out. The gallery say they've re-established the feed via the University Research Team's CCTV installed in the house, so communication via Creator/TheBBC link between studio and the outside broadcast is still down. So the gallery just put the picture on the big screen as Michael Parkinson and Dr Pascoe discuss the paranormal. Pascoe suddenly exclaims "It's in the machines!" Noting the images from the house aren't live, as a picture previously knocked of the wall suddenly appeared back wall.

* In ''Film/Derailed2002'', ClassyCatBurglar Galina Konstantin spoofs the camera of the research facility she breaks into by plugging her phone into the camera and having it show a loop of the empty corridor.