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Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db
I know Droitwich, this made me laugh
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/27/requiem-for-long-wave-as-the...
Everyone: For a moment forget everything you know about computers and wonder if perhaps 99% of normies are just following the directions on the package of their $19 Chinese IP camera. They have no idea what a firewall is, or what the "public internet" even means. There's also a difference between your neighbor not closing her blinds and you using a telescope to look inside her apartment, which is what sites like this…
I doubt that the instructions for a cheap camera have enough information to walk a non-technical user through the process of setting up port forwarding on their specific router.
I could believe that it’s automatic port forwarding via UPnP for some of these cameras.
However a lot of them are from contractors who install the cameras for people as a service and this is the only way they know how to get them remote access. It’s the same reason different industrial controls and other machines keep getting exposed to the internet. Some installer with a git-er-done attitude knows their customer wants a solution to something (remote access) and they use the first technique they can find to accomplish that without any concern about what it means. They accomplish the thing the customer wants, collect payment, and disappear.
If the customer calls back with a complaint about it, the contractor will happily come visit the site and try to “fix” it for another fee.
If you’re thinking that this is a liability issue you’re not wrong, but in much of the world there is no realistic recourse. Most things like this are pure caveat emptor.
I’m more interested in how they do large scans without their ISP or hosting provider going bananas about it.
Hah, someone from UK seems to have a camera pointing to his cannabis plants... Hopefully the guy has a "loicense" for that, otherwise it would be a hilarious way to get busted
I’m not even convinced these are all real, or at least are staged:
https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223
That’s the invisible man hanging out at a tennis match…
Everyone: For a moment forget everything you know about computers and wonder if perhaps 99% of normies are just following the directions on the package of their $19 Chinese IP camera. They have no idea what a firewall is, or what the "public internet" even means. There's also a difference between your neighbor not closing her blinds and you using a telescope to look inside her apartment, which is what sites like this…
> and wonder if perhaps 99% of normies are just following the directions on the package of their $19 Chinese IP camera. I doubt that the instructions for a cheap camera have enough information to walk a non-technical user through the process of setting up port forwarding on their specific router. I could believe that it’s automatic port forwarding via UPnP for some of these cameras. However a lot of them are from con…
Most network security experts would quit before ever entering a hot attic.
So Cletus the CCTV guy who just spent 8 hours crawling through drop ceilings with a mask on, does a super-clean install, and sets it up as well as he knows how. Which is "good enough" — it works and he's off to the next job. The customer's happy and he gets paid.
Now which one of you network security guys is going to give up his cushy WFH job to go make house calls for CCTV wages?
Weird https://ipcrawl.com/?page=6&cam=63f7feaf5042d223
Imagine if someone put plausible but strange/shocking fake videos on an open port for the voyeurs to think real and freak out about.
This seems to just be a map interface to Shodan Images. I've found the exact same camera with the exact same snapshot on both sites. https://images.shodan.io/?query=port%3A554+country%3A%22GB%2... https://ipcrawl.com/imce?cam=069b2971c357edbd
I dont think it is? https://alec.is/posts/ip-crawl-exposing-the-massive-open-web...
Edit: they're literally the same image
2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 ipcrawl.jpg
2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 shodan.jpg