A few years ago, while browsing the feeds from my country, I had spotted a camera showing a bedroom with a young child playing. The camera in question was using UPnP to enable port forwarding by default – with a standard password.<p>After looking up the ip address, I notified the ISP which in turn notified the customer and the camera was taken offline within hours.<p>While it may not be unexpected to us that such insecure cameras are sold, less tech-savvy users simply don't know about the risks.
Years ago there was a Mac screensaver that showed a random insecure camera feed each time it activated. Lots of dark roads and driveways, but weirdly fascinating all the same. Don’t think it’s working any more - maybe this could be the base for a new one.
Sitting in a cold office in Denmark, I miss travelling to places like this: <a href="https://www.insecam.org/en/view/238958/" rel="nofollow">https://www.insecam.org/en/view/238958/</a>
While this kind of content is not unprecedented (think Shodan.io), I haven't seen a browser with full previews like this.. Nice!! Good official public webcams are pretty rare so this will be useful to look around the world.
Just an FYI: I had to disable Ghostery in order to see the streams. I suspect one of the components this site relies on is typically blocked because its used for adware or tracking.
Related, I put this together a couple of years ago to highlight the severity of a hard-coded backdoor in Hikvision IP cameras:<p><a href="https://ipvm.com/reports/hik-hack-map" rel="nofollow">https://ipvm.com/reports/hik-hack-map</a>
Interesting project but a note of caution - accessing any resources without permission will presumably be considered hacking in many jurisdictions.<p>IANAL and don't claim this would mean a likely prosecution risk, just something to bear in mind.<p>Happy to be corrected!
Looks like a nice alternative VNC Roulette [1] :)<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810366" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810366</a>
If you click on any of the cam feeds, just above feed is a link to location, which will scroll you down and you get a map of all the cams you can navigate - in Russian.
This is both fascinating and creepy at the same time .. While i enjoy seeing Torino beach video (submitted by another HN'er). Felt creepy seeing this :(<p><a href="https://www.insecam.org/en/view/833447/" rel="nofollow">https://www.insecam.org/en/view/833447/</a><p>Looks like a call center of sorts , essentially an IT company , not keeping their shit secure :(
How’s this different from shodan?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shodan_(website)</a>