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Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams

Posted by michael on from the watching-us-watching-them dept.

Mikkeles writes "From an Associated Press story: 'It sounds like a chapter out of "Spy vs. Spy": Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have launched a project called Camera Watch that lists Internet cameras that monitor public spaces, letting Web surfers try the role of bored security guard.' The site permits searching for an available webcam in the geographical region (US) of your choice. About 600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available."

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  1. a great congestion reduction tool by civilengineer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if we have a lot of these at movie theaters, airport queues, and wherever else there might be congestion, people can adjust their travel behavior accordingly.

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  2. No.... by CGP314 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    sounds like a chapter out of "Spy vs. Spy"

    Sounds more like 1984 to me.

  3. In other news...... by losttoy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ....they were slashdotted within seconds. But seriously, how would you handle a DoS on a network of webcams? Anything over the internet is reliable enough for security monitoring given attacks like DoS/DDoS?

  4. Shouldn't it be the other way around? by CGP314 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The site -- http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/cam watch -- notes that a few of the "jail cams" had been disabled due to lawsuits.

    We don't want to let you see what happens in a jail. We do want to keep an eye on you so we can more easily put you in one.