Unsecured IP Cameras Accessible To Everyone

Orome1 writes "In the last couple of decades, we have become so accustomed to the idea that the public portion of our everyday life is watched and recorded — in stores, on the street, in institutions — that we often don't even notice the cameras anymore. Analog surveillance systems were difficult to hack into by people who lacked the adequate knowledge, but IP cameras — having their own IPs — can be quite easily physically located and their stream watched in real-time by anyone who has a modicum of computer knowledge and knows what to search for on Google."

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Re:tons of cams are available.

[cusco]

What amazes me are the IT staffers that actively avoid any knowledge or involvement with the same system that secures their server room and data closets. I had one fellow actually say, "I don't know anything about that server, and I don't want to know anything about that server." When I kept talking he learned that he had a Win2K SP2 system on their network with an unpatched SQL2000 database, no backup, no virus scan, and Internet access that auto-logged on as Administrator. We have to clean up crap like that left behind by our competition all the time (although that was admittedly the worst).