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The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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post #7

What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?

Considering the open camera "feeds" have the bounding boxes around people, I guess they're CCTVs mistakenly put on the open Internet, findable through some services (can't remember the name of a famous one).

Well actually he probably added the bounding boxes. DDG result for "Dublin Temple Bar livestream": https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#12
post #7

What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?

Considering the open camera "feeds" have the bounding boxes around people, I guess they're CCTVs mistakenly put on the open Internet, findable through some services (can't remember the name of a famous one). Well actually he probably added the bounding boxes. DDG result for "Dublin Temple Bar livestream": https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar

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Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#13
post #7

What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?

https://www.tfljamcams.net/

Traffic cameras are publicly available in London. The first thing I used to do when coming to the office each morning was to look myself up in the traffic cameras along my journey (historic footage is also publicly available).

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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post #7

What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?

Considering the open camera "feeds" have the bounding boxes around people, I guess they're CCTVs mistakenly put on the open Internet, findable through some services (can't remember the name of a famous one). Well actually he probably added the bounding boxes. DDG result for "Dublin Temple Bar livestream": https://www.earthcam.com/world/ireland/dublin/?cam=templebar

Shodan is the name IIRC

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

#16
Reminds me of this RadioLab episode about a company that loiters over areas with a high resolution imaging platform that allows them to 'rewind' from the scene of a crime to see where the suspects came from:

https://radiolab.org/episodes/update-eye-sky

The company in question:

https://www.pss-1.com/

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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post #7

What does "open camera" mean? Public webcam? Hacked CCTV? How did the author find those cameras?

https://www.tfljamcams.net/ Traffic cameras are publicly available in London. The first thing I used to do when coming to the office each morning was to look myself up in the traffic cameras along my journey (historic footage is also publicly available).

It's not surprising, but I find very cute the fact that the further you are from the center the older the security cameras are.

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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post #16

Reminds me of this RadioLab episode about a company that loiters over areas with a high resolution imaging platform that allows them to 'rewind' from the scene of a crime to see where the suspects came from: https://radiolab.org/episodes/update-eye-sky The company in question: https://www.pss-1.com/

If you're looking for more info, there is a whole book that goes beyond the content of this episode. I found it to be an informative, and eye-opening (albeit disconcerting) read.

https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare-ebook/dp...

Re: The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken

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post #5

That is actually pretty freaking cool. Not hard to do by any means, just cool.

The machine learning element isn't really needed if the instagram posts are tagged by date/time...

You could have taken the picture a day before or am I missing something? The post date/time itself does not mean much.
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