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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!
This just underlines the engineer's problem with making something secure, yet making sure every moron in the U.S. can plug it in and turn it on and have it basically work.
meh
inurl:/view/index.shtml
I got a jump on this from the Boing Boing post a couple days ago. I use inurl:"axis-cgi/mjpg".i ?camera=&showlength=1&resolution=640x480 Shows animals under the knife, I've yet to catch a surgery yet.
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.cg
Anybody find any other cool ones?
Johnny at IHackStuff has a huge list of fun things like this you can get from google.
Here is the list of searches for network aware stuff: Google Cached since main site is down
Some search phrases for cameras are: "camera linksys inurl:main.cgi" and
"powered by webcamXP" "Pro|Broadcast"
Don't forget that google can limit results to region by using "site:.jp" or similar.
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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This is a good example of why you SHOULD trust some other company. Chances are that company knows more than you do about setting up a system. Choosing the right people to work with is obviously important. I wouldn't trust myself to set up an alarm system for my offices, I would hire someone who knew what they were doing.
Most of the good cameras out there have built-in webservers. Sending motion JPEG over a network from the embedded webserver on the camera is the most common and efficient way to manage a larger camera installation, especially if you are recording. If you have a school district with 10 sites, 5 cameras each, using a network video system and central recording is a fraction of the cost of a traditional CCTV or even DVR (digital recording of analog cameras) setup. Configuring the camera incorrectly leads to problems like this, taking a step backwards to CCTV or other technology is not the answer.
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Funny how people with one deviant obsession are so annoyed by people with another. ;-)
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
You are an idiot. It is an order of magnitude more likely that your child would be raped/coerced to sex by your brother, uncle, father, cousin or another relative. Not to mention that you are extremely likely to mess up the life of the child in the future with your paranoia. No, Cindy, you can't go on a hiking trip with your class, a pervert may be hiding in the woods. No, Cindy, you can't go to a prom, there might be a paedophile there. No, Cindy, I don't like that boyfriend of yours, he seems to be sexually attracted to young girls. Meanwhile you probably secretly fantasize about having sex with underage cheerleaders yourself...
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Google Error We're sorry... ... but we can't process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
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.