Years ago there was a Mac screensaver that showed a random insecure camera feed each time it activated. Lots of dark roads and driveways, but weirdly fascinating all the same. Don’t think it’s working any more - maybe this could be the base for a new one.
Insecam: Directory of Unsecured Surveillance Cameras
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Re: Insecam: Directory of Unsecured Surveillance Cameras
#12So many 3D-printers!
I was going thru the UK ones and only seen one so far, but oh, so many cars in the driveway. Still looking for local ones, closest was 4 miles away. Part of me wants to find something local, drop a note thru their door.
Many have their location miscategorised though. I saw some with a town name on-screen which was different (but usually nearby) the city listed on the site.
They probably do an IP location lookup which tends to be pretty inaccurate.
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#13Sitting in a cold office in Denmark, I miss travelling to places like this: https://www.insecam.org/en/view/238958/
Looks like a great place though I'd pick a hotel with better IT security :P Edit: Actually as it's only an advertising cam for their website they have a valid reason not to secure it :)
PS: Living in Spain so I don't have much to complain about.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
A camera like this makes me question something - why was it installed in the first place? You can't distinguish things like license plates on cars or faces (I doubt ML helps here either). So what is this for? The view is beautiful, but I fail to see the purpose of it.
Advertising. It's linked from the hotel's website: https://www.royalhotelsanremo.com/en/webcam-sanremo
Ah and in this case it actually makes sense for it to have no password. Unlike many of the elevator and office cams I'm seeing ;)
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#15Interesting project but a note of caution - accessing any resources without permission will presumably be considered hacking in many jurisdictions.
IANAL and don't claim this would mean a likely prosecution risk, just something to bear in mind.
Happy to be corrected!
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#16How’s this different from shodan?
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#17Sitting in a cold office in Denmark, I miss travelling to places like this: https://www.insecam.org/en/view/238958/
> NOTE: The coordinates are very approximative and have accuracy in hundreds of miles
Indeed, Torino is not exactly on the sea. How are this location obtained, geoip?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going thru the UK ones and only seen one so far, but oh, so many cars in the driveway. Still looking for local ones, closest was 4 miles away. Part of me wants to find something local, drop a note thru their door.
Many have their location miscategorised though. I saw some with a town name on-screen which was different (but usually nearby) the city listed on the site. They probably do an IP location lookup which tends to be pretty inaccurate.
Yes, St Michael's Mount in Cornwall seems to have been moved to London... https://www.insecam.org/en/view/845188/#details
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#19A few years ago, while browsing the feeds from my country, I had spotted a camera showing a bedroom with a young child playing. The camera in question was using UPnP to enable port forwarding by default – with a standard password.
After looking up the ip address, I notified the ISP which in turn notified the customer and the camera was taken offline within hours.
While it may not be unexpected to us that such insecure cameras are sold, less tech-savvy users simply don't know about the risks.
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#20Related, I put this together a couple of years ago to highlight the severity of a hard-coded backdoor in Hikvision IP cameras: