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Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pick-a-password-people dept.

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. Re:The question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    inurl:/view/index.shtml

  2. The URL I use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use http://www.google.ca/search?q=inurl%3A%22axis-cgi% 2Fmjpg%22&btnG=Google to find them. It works great.

  3. a search string for the lazy/stupid among us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2 coff=1&q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22

  4. some cameras by cat.os.mandros · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the curious, here there is an article (in spanish, sorry) with some links to cams and what terms to search to find more, happy watching :)

    http://sindominio.net/suburbia/article.php3?id_art icle=146

  5. The best ones so far by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I got a jump on this from the Boing Boing post a couple days ago. I use inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg".
    This one seems to show every page printed off of some printer. http://81.72.76.218/view/index.shtml. Right now it's some photo.
    This one http://217.148.2.106/view/index.shtml shows somes bar (German?) that seems very active.
    This one http://24.173.235.172:8001/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi ?camera=&showlength=1&resolution=640x480 Shows animals under the knife, I've yet to catch a surgery yet.

    Anybody find any other cool ones?

  6. The search queries are... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use Google and search for the following:
    inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="
    or:
    inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode="

  7. interesting by mr_tommy · · Score: 4, Informative

    On pages with non-enlish text (E.G. this one http://aquashop-es.miemasu.net/MultiCameraFrame?Mo de=Motion&Language=1)

    change language=1 to language=0 to get english text.

  8. detailed links by pollock · · Score: 3, Informative

    graffe.com suggests searching for inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=".

    You can do slightly bettter by searching for inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode=", as mentioned on Metafilter.

  9. Google Links to Web cams by Numeric · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google - home" Requires installation of activeX plug-in. Great video feeds.
    Google - inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion"
    Google - inurl:LvAppl intitle:liveapplet
    Google - intitle:"Live View / - AXIS"
    Google - "Powered by webcamXP"
    Google - inurl:indexFrame.shtml "Axis Video Server"
    Google - "MOBOTIX M1" and "open menu"
    Google - intitle:flexwatch intext:"Copyright by Seyeon TECH Co"
    Google - intitle:"WJ-NT104 Main"

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  10. Re:The question is by AstroDrabb · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here is the webcam search URL:
    inurl:"view/index.shtml"
    Here is a list of others
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  11. Re:Security vs. Stupidity by JPriest · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are not peoples personal webcams, these are $500 - $2000 buisness cameras most of them are watching traffic and empty offices, and seem to be intended for public access.

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  12. Re:The question is by ffunch · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  13. Re:But why were they crawled? by NuclearDog · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes it does crawl it.

    But, as the parent said, it will never find a site _unless_ there is a link to it.

    Google does not just make up URLs and domains and try brute-forcing them, it follows links on already known-of pages. Therefore we can assume that somewhere, someone has linked to these cameras. Linking to your webcam on the internet kind of implies that it is open to the public, does it not?

    ND

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