Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242 Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-01-09 15:00:00 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 [1]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! [2]Click Here References 1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_surveillance_cams_open_to_all/ 2. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5717&alloc_id=12468&site_id=1&request_id=231150&op =click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> wrote:
with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits
I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point. http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22 Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling revealed. (There's something strangely meta about using google to discover a google search string.) -- Riad S. Wahby rsw@jfet.org
Riad S. Wahby <rsw@jfet.org> wrote:
I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.
A fairly comprehensive list of search strings per camera/manufacturer can be found here: http://www.i-hacked.com/Computer-Components/Software-Internet/Finding-Online... A! -- ================================================== anton l. raath http://raath.org/ ================================================== Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas ==================================================
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