Google exposes web surveillance cams

[bemildred]

Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge.

Searching on certain strings within a URL sniffs out networked cameras that have Web interfaces permitting their owners to view them remotely, and even direct the cameras' motorized pan-and-tilt mechanisms from the comfort of their own desktop.

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One of the Google search strings circulating summons a list of nearly 1,000 installed network cameras made by Swedish-based Axis Communications, the other turns up about 500 cameras sold by Panasonic. Neither company could be reached after hours Friday.

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[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Damn. I wish they would stop publishing exploits like this

I was having a lot of fun with this.... now it is ruined.

[GregD]

2. How do you search? I don't see where the article reveals

more than the fact it can be done, and not "how".

[bemildred]

3. Try some of the links. nt