About 16, 17 years ago, I was briefly obsessed with browsing freely accessible webcams on the Internet. Most were surveillance cameras outside of businesses (some even with motorized controls!) and it was fun to explore the world that way: I saw sunrises in the Arctic Circle, busy Asian city streets, lots of interesting everyday moments from around the globe. Just harmless fun, right?
However, two cameras I stumbled upon made me stop this entirely: One was from an office in Russia, a hidden camera placed under a desk shared by several young women wearing short skirts. The other (thus the connection to the title) was a camera inside someone’s home, right above a baby sleeping in their crib. In fact, the entire house, every single room, was covered in cameras, all of them accessible to the world. I felt like the worst creep, even though I found both completely by accident.
I’m sure my cameras are easily viewable by hackers.
Thats why I have one in the chicken coop and one in the yard to also check the chickens, and nowhere else.
If they want to watch awesome chicken footage, be my guest. Can’t say I’d even blame them, my ladies are awesome.
If I wanted actual security cameras, I’d self-host them.
Just don’t complain in three months from now when your streams become the start of a chicken porn obsession
booooook bok
Just be sure they’re isolated on your network as well.
This is what you show the “nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear” crowd.
"And in the next video, we can see you and your husband fuck on the camera you set up to monitor your dog. But as you said, nothing to hide, right?
Oh and you should really switch brands on diapers, your kid is getting rashes."
Similar stuff has been around for decades. There was(maybe is?) a “search engine” called shodan which allowed you to search for devices open to certain protocols, one of which was used for security cameras and even an option to only show systems which didn’t request a login. You could go on there and see literally thousands of people’s homes and rooms. This was pre-2010 so atleast a decade and a half ago and no one cared.
Now atleast most camera systems require a login by default but other than that…
