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Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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Post by marshray »

jacquesm wrote: post #23

The popularity of snooping on other people's lives will never cease to amaze me. Some of the sentiment in this thread is what has powered ww.com for 15 years now, and I still don't get it. I'm not complaining though :)

Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent.

Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that.

Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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dubfan wrote: post #52
tkahn6 wrote: post #42

This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40

I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)

Often, geolocation is no better than to the regional ISP.

Re: Exposed Webcam Viewer

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cuppy wrote: post #89

Child labor in vietnam? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200

Looks to me like a retail shop for baby supplies. Unless that lady is picking out diapers and a brightly colored uniform for their new employee. :-)
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