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Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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Post by jwandborg »

shocks wrote: post #44

Firefox Nightly, 23.0a1 (2013-04-13) is crashing a lot for me while I view these cams. (I guess that's what I get for using Nightly >.<)

I have the same issue with 22.0a2 (2013-04-06). Aurora went unresponsive, does not respond to SIGTERM.

It even managed to exhaust all my memory when I wasn't using the computer while the page loaded, when I came back to the computer I couldn't start any new processes - Not even a shell or tty.

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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Post by soulclap »

fcoury wrote: post #10

Hospital bed with a dummy patient - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=1176 http://128.175.94.76/image Edit: also, weird building in NL - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641

Great find! The dummy patient thing is quite creepy. I am kind of waiting for the jump scare all the time.

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

#66

Post by DanBC »

pointernil wrote: post #12

What an ingenious understanding of security ;) http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323

Schneier has, from 2006, people pointing webcams at securid tokens!!

(http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_...)

Here's a Stackoverflow question from someone who is expected to OCR the webcam so they can programatically use the securid token (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fo...)

And here's a really nice write up, with perl, about OCRing securid tokens. (http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf)

(http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html)

I saw the link you posted. I laughed! it was funny. Then I searched, and a whole bunch of people do it.

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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Post by bajsejohannes »

Huh. Today I learned about Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace". The webcam images are jpegs that are continously replaced by the server in the same HTTP response. It's the smoothest live webcam transmission I've seen so far.

Relevant headers:

        HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	Connection: close
	Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=--myboundary
	Content-Length: 99999999
	Cache-control: no-cache, must revalidate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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Post by mech4bg »

DouweM wrote: post #11
kintamanimatt wrote: post #2

One person has an exposed webcam in what appears to be their bedroom! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Fran...

They're not the only ones: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 And their living room where they're currently watching TV: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 Damn, this is creepy.

The bedroom one is labeled "Sleep Camera" in dutch...

I wonder if it's on purpose?

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