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Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams
An anonymous reader writes "Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge." Apparently many of the cams are even aimable. Oops!
What is the search keyword.
Following an item on The Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_survei llance_cams_open_to_all/ I have been looking at some of the result given by google. One interesting one that came up was http://lobbycamera3.abia.org/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.c gi?camera=&resolution=640x480 which turns out to be an airport in Mr Bush's home state of Texas. http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/austinairport/ This just goes to show that even supposed security professionals don't bother to read the instructions on their new toys. Free to air surveillance for Mr. Bin Laden?
In any case, I have to admit that one of my guilty pleasures used to be (before the slashdotting) this fun link to... 137 java-controllable webcams around the world: http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Aliveapple t+inurl%3ALvAppl
A certain japanese construction site has made a lot progress lately. :)
Power to the Peaceful
Where's the bloody ZOOM!!
chastity belt? :-)
man, I hate it when the wife gets 'rooted' by the (pool|mail|ups)guy!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Ok, I've clicked on the links mentioned and the results from google and I'm getting weather cams and empty offices.
We all know why we jumped on this story so now somebody needes to deliver!
do you really have a wife?
your pasty white complexion tells me you don't have a pool either.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Sounds positively HOT, which cam was that? My wife never does the laundry!
All I know about Bush is I had a good job when Clinton was president.
Okay, whoever else is viewing http://216.76.95.195:8090/remote6/, stop panning to the window, I want to zoom in on the desk. It should be my turn to control the camera now.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
Funny how people with one deviant obsession are so annoyed by people with another. ;-)
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
I saw a couple of college age kids making out on one cam, but that's as close as I have got.
Listen, I am getting tired of this joke, sure, lots of you are socially inept nerds, but I do have a wife, and I know for a fact that she is outside showing the gardener something or other in the back yard. Let me pull up my surveillance cam, see, there she is showing the gardener the. um . WTF ?!
music lover since 1969
If someone tells us, "Get outside more", does this count?
Table-ized A.I.
mistaking?
Yes, because Americans get on planes and go and be American in other countries...
Sheesh!
It's a quantum mechanical thing. Any time you go somewhere you are really taking all possible routes along all possible streets. Only when you are observed do the laws of statistics come into play and the routes collapse into one real route. So the surveillance cameras do indeed play a vital role of providing that observer. Caveat: it's been a while since I studied QM, so I might be slightly wrong here.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Meanwhile you probably secretly fantasize about having sex with underage cheerleaders yourself...
In case anyone didn't notice, danila looked up the posting history of FerretFrottage and found a post to use as incriminating evidence against him. This is a rather advanced flaming technique. I am quite impressed. Well done.
My other first post is car post.