- Website insecam.com running footage from more than 73,000 cameras
- A total of 11,000 cameras in the United States are able to be viewed
- There are 2,422 cameras in the UK which are also providing a live feed
- Cameras which have not had their factory passwords changed are accessible
- Users can view businesses, factories, building sites and private homes
- The site states: 'you can see into bedrooms of all countries of the world'
- Easy to stop - just change the password on the camera
A creepy website has collected streaming footage from more than 73,000 cameras that are connected to the internet whose owners haven't bothered to changed their default passwords, making it accessible to virtually anyone. Insecam claims to feature feeds from IP cameras all over the world with more than 2,400 in the UK and 11,000 in the U.S. Some of the shots are harmless with fly-on-the-wall views of stores, offices and parking lots, but there are also far more personal areas covered by the cameras, with living rooms and bedrooms featured prominently. Although the feeds are something that anyone with a bit of determination could find through Google, for example, the website allows the streams to be pulled together all in one place.
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Is this website live-streaming YOUR living room? 73,000 webcams now viewable to anyone around the world because their owners haven't set a password
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