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/r/conspiracy kids discovers public city weather and traffic cameras that have been around Since the 00s
It’s pretty cool. You can change where they point and zoom in/out. Usually can’t do that with public cameras
Really? I occasionally visit public construction site cameras that real estate developers put up, and they're almost always interactive.
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You just made up every aspect of that statement. Caltrans traffic cameras are all variable telephoto cameras on pan/tilt/zoom rigs. Many weather cameras even allow random web visitors to control the PTZ for a minute or two.
I've never seen a traffic camera that could make out a license plate from 2 blocks away.
How many have you installed?
One TV station that I worked for in the early 00's had cameras all over the city that could easily do that, all fibered back into the newsroom.
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Also worth noting that just about every redlight intersection has cameras mounted on top pointing at traffic in each direction. It's pretty much impossible to navigate through a city anonymously in a vehicle. Now with facial recognition software getting so advanced I'd water it's impossible to walk through a city anonymously as well. They don't necessarily need aerial imagery when every intersection has HD cameras po…
They’re not cameras, they are metal/RF/infrared/whatever detectors used to detect vehicles waiting at the intersection so lights don’t stop traffic for no reason. Source: I’ve had to call municipal governments to get the detectors rotated or angled properly due to them not detecting cars and therefore not changing the light to green. Of course it’s technically possible they also contain cameras, but I have yet to see…
Today, many have cameras for other reasons. But this is not ubiquitous and the prevalence of these cameras varies from location to location. Many traffic lights don't have cameras (many don't even have induction loops, and work off timers instead.)
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So accessing a web site is illegal? I rarely see explicit "you are allowed to access the HTML files on this server" anywhere.
It can be if it was not intended to be public. It's really not much different than walking around outside. You can walk in an unlocked retail store and it's okay, but if you walk into your neighbors bedroom it's not okay.
Inside one of the cameras: "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com" http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ Good job fellas.
This phone number traces to Mike Bethers, Special Agent at Oregon Department of Justice. I might give them a call today and ask about these cameras.
Caller Type: CONSUMER
Call Type: mobile
Carrier: Verizon Wireless
Country: US
Addons: Unknown
Inside one of the cameras: "Due to its sensitive nature, the information contained on this website is restricted to law enforcement professionals and government agencies only. For access contact us at 503-932-6899 or email us at info@ipsurvconcepts.com" http://ipsurvconcepts.com/ Good job fellas.
This phone number traces to Mike Bethers, Special Agent at Oregon Department of Justice. I might give them a call today and ask about these cameras.
lol
Anybody else afraid to click some of the links in that post until you hear about legality of accessing (and controlling!) a DEA camera that's likely part of an active investigation?
Plenty of law related to tech that gets stretched to absurdity out there but I haven't seen anything to make me think hitting a rando site is a real risk in the US.
/r/conspiracy kids discovers public city weather and traffic cameras that have been around Since the 00s
One guy there was playing around and found presets for: "Richards House"
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As a practical matter I'm not worried about clicking a link that's been clicked tens of thousands of times today. There's enough ambiguous laws they could likely come after anyone who accesses it if they wanted but given the facts of the situation I doubt they'd be able to make anything stick and it would be a giant PR snafu.
>> I doubt they'd be able to make anything stick and it would be a giant PR snafu. Both of those are true, however your life would still be massivly impacted and you would still be out thousands of dollars in legal fees with almost no hope of collecting them Also better hope they do not find any other things in your life to charge you with, and you do not respond to any question in a way that could be seen as a lie,…
I think the risk here is very very low to consider such a wildcard situation.