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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!

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  1. The question is by cainskltn · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is the search keyword.

  2. Re:Run your own surveillance by Fishstick · · Score: 3, Funny

    chastity belt? :-)

    man, I hate it when the wife gets 'rooted' by the (pool|mail|ups)guy!

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  3. Where are the naked coeds? by glrotate · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

  4. Re:Daycares with cams by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 5, Funny
    FerretFrottage (714136)

    Funny how people with one deviant obsession are so annoyed by people with another. ;-)

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  5. Re:Run your own surveillance by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 ?!

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  6. Shortcut by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    If someone tells us, "Get outside more", does this count?

  7. Re:Google stopped me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    mistaking?

  8. This is awesome... by Cryptnotic · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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