IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

The point is valuable, and the mission is important, but the ends do not justify the means. If this must be shared, at least use static pictures and don’t stream the content for viewers.

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Post by ragebol » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 7:54 PM UTC

Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db

Re: IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

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Post by bensons1 » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

Nothing changed compared to 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20151013010243/http://internetce...

> As a rule of thumb, if you believe that "nobody would connect that to the Internet, really nobody", there are at least 1000 people who did.

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Post by halperter » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC

This website---naturally, I think---weirds me out. Many of these cameras are in private spaces, with some places you most certainly don't want people to have live feeds of. It's quite disturbing how you can see personal snapshots of people's lives without them knowing. There's a perverse feeling of dread about being able to see into someone's life and being able to paradoxically watch someone eat dinner alone, seemingly so detatched from human connection even with someone watching like some kind of otherworldly spectator.

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Post by davidvaughan » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC

Droitwich, UK, is a bit revealing.

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Post by specproc » Sat, Jun 27, 2026, 7:57 PM UTC

ragebol wrote: post #6

Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db

I know Droitwich, this made me laugh