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  1. Re:Need to take great caution with this by drkim · · Score: 1 · on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons

    The problem is that a security camera doesn't post the videos on youtube.

    You're right.

    Some of them stream live:

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%2Fview%2Findex.shtml

    http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php

    http://www.cctvcamerapros.com/Live-Streaming-Cameras-s/395.htm

  2. Re:This again? by imcdona · · Score: 1 · on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits

    There is always opentopia.com where a simple right click, view source on the camera image will glean many unprotected webcams.

  3. Aggregator by symes · · Score: 5, Informative · on Unsecured IP Cameras Accessible To Everyone

    Someone has a whole list of open webcams: http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php

  4. Re:Snow Removal In Moscow by Katchu · · Score: 1 · on Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow

    Really? That is odd. I was just watching a webcam on opentopia ( http://www.opentopia.com/ ) and watched a cam in Russia viewing a front loader scraping up snow with trucks arriving at interval to be loaded. It looked to be about as efficient as could be. Also, the person running the front loader was really good (my experience in a combat engineering battalion that used earth-moving equipment as a basis of judgment). OTOH, your description could well describe DOT workers anywhere.

  5. Re:Blackmail, casing future robberies, cyber-stalk by tomhudson · · Score: 1 · on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain

    Within a week or so all the cameras would be mapped out. It's not like they're not fixed, and you can't, you know, see what they're looking at. Someone would start a web site and ask people to identify stills from each camera to geotag them. Oops - already been done. Then people will start sharing video feeds. ("Want to know what the traffic's like at the corner of 1st and Main? Click here.")

    (you can't blackmail someone if you don't know who they are).

    They won't stay anonymous for long. Look how quickly dog-shit girl was identified. Once you have the location, you start following the person via cam.

    Then there's the whole DoS of the cameras issue. It's been done. A lot of cameras have their own web-server.

    This is just a bad idea on top of another bad idea.

  6. Re:infrared by nschubach · · Score: 1 · on Google Sky Now Available Through Your Browser

    Probably for the same reason there's a giant shaded wave of darkness over this map: http://www.opentopia.com/images/cams/world_sunlight_map_rectangular.jpg

    The Earth is round + our solar system spins off axis to the rest of the galaxy = "sine wave" infrared signature showing the horizon of the galaxy.

  7. I used it in a class. by Ralph+Spoilsport · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future?
    The lecture went "hahaha - we all know know about surveillance, right??? So, let's pretend I'm tired of living here and I want to move back home. let's look at realtor.com - I'll need a place to live. Oh look - a nice house in the neighbourhood I want. Cool. click on that, and oh - look - the interior of the place is photographed. Nice kitchen - big bathroom. Ugly carpet, but I can change that. And that credenza? Urp - that'll have to go. But that's OK. Now - let's see what the neighbourhood is like. Excellent. Google Street goes right by the place. so we'll enter the address and look wher ewe are. Oh - we're right in front of the building. nice - and look! The PEOPLE ARE MOVING OUT OF THE HOUSE. There's the moving van parked right in front. Excellent! And there's the neighbour - I recognise him because I used to live around the block from here back in the late 90s. Cool..."

    At this point the class (a mass lecture of 150) got quiet...

    "Oh, and look in his window! See that lamp? The guy who lived upstairs from me used to own that, and he gave to the guy who lives there. I remember that - it's a nice lamp and it was a great day. We all sat around drinking beer. Oh - just like the guy down on the corner over there."

    We zoom down the street to the corner.

    "Yeah - I recognise him - lousy stupid drunk. Really bad attitude. Never liked him."

    "So that was fun, wasn't it kids? Dropping in on their lives, looking into their homes? Nice. so, now let's open up a new tab and I'll type in http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php and look here - links to CCTs we can look through. Excellent. Click on this one, and look - we get CONTROLS- we can move and zoom the camera. Looks like we're in some university, similar to this one, but it looks like a very different time zone. Hhhhm... Let's zoom in on those kids over there. Look - one of them is picking his nose. Pig..."

    The class got REALLY QUIET...

    "And now, let's type in a some search criteria, like "inurl: view/index.shtml?videos=one" and look - an entire list of open cameras. Let's look at this one. Cool. People working in a call centre in Argentina. WORK YOU LOSERS! WORK!!! WORK HARDER!!! MAKE ME RICH!!! Hahaha! funny isn't it?"

    No one laughed. People were squirming as we went from one private scene to another.

    "OK - so today we're going to watch portions of some hollywood entertainment fodder. It's called "The Truman Show"."

    They watched it with new eyes. They were guilty. They had sinned. We had gone from "isn't this interesting" to the "global panopticon" with a visceral sense of what surveillance really is as we watched people work, scratch themselves, goof off, pick their noses, BE HUMAN BEINGS.

    RESIST THE SURVEILLANCE STATE. TAKE YOUR SPACE BACK FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE INDUSTRY.

    It's not that Google Street is evil, it's not that a CCT in an airport is evil. It's not that a CCT in a parking lot is evil. But in aggregate, it is evil, and Google is not helping.

    RS

  8. Re:The question is by ffunch · · Score: 5, Informative · on Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

    I did a page at http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php that picks up a few hundred of the cameras found in google with inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg", scans them every couple of hours, grabs the first picture from the Motion JPEG stream, geocodes them with their general location, and shows them in one page for easy access. Saves a bit of the trouble.