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

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

#21

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, seemin…

If the room has an IP camera in it, it is by definition not private. Since cheap cameras have begun to appear everywhere I treat them all as if they were publicly viewable. I'm not going to hide from them, but I save my more thorough ear cleanings and ass scratchings for home.

> If the room has an IP camera in it, it is by definition not private.

While right, there are multiple definitions of "private" and for others OP's point still stands.

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

#22

Off topic: Is there anyone doing any research on how to use Claude/Agents to design websites that don't look so, "Claude"?

You should ask Claude and see how many kWh and gallons it can use up to hallucinate an answer.

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

#23

Definitely an invasion of privacy. I can’t visit this website in good faith. It should be taken down. 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.

I think the website is kind of awesome. If you put a window in your home and opened it to the world is it wrong to look through the window? If someone installed the camera and didn’t understand what they are doing that is on them.

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

#24

Off topic: Is there anyone doing any research on how to use Claude/Agents to design websites that don't look so, "Claude"?

People always say that LLMs design websites/write text/produce code that is the same.

I don't really understand this b/c it's trivial to say "write me a letter in the style of mixed with the style of ""

Or

"Here are some examples websites, make a new website that is a remix of all of the example sites".

You would be surprised at the results.

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

#27
post #7

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.

Connect it but make sure authorization is actually secure

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

#30
Hehe, this one has a feeding tray with a novelty sign on it:

> Baiting deer is illegal!

> This corn pile is intended for squirrels, chipmunks, and other such critters.

> Any deer found eating this corn will be shot!

https://ipcrawl.com/fun/c/373ef0178c5281a5

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