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Exposed Webcam Viewer

170 points by taintlove 13y ago

pja 13y ago
Radio Observatory in Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18311 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18311
- hkmurakami 13y ago
  Darn, now I wish I had visited this place (or just ride by it) when I was a student there :(
  - pja 13y ago
    It's quite a long way out of Cambridge! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory&hl=en&ll=52.172984,0.066948&spn=0.095907,0.140762&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=12.104955,18.017578&hq=mullard+radio+observatory&t=m&z=13 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory&#3... Still being used as part of the UK synthetic aperture radio telescope IIRC, along with Jodrell bank and a few other sites dotted around the UK.
- lvs 13y ago
  Unhealthy Food Observatory in the other Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785
fcoury 13y ago
Hospital bed with a dummy patient - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=1176 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=1176 http://128.175.94.76/image http://128.175.94.76/image Edit: also, weird building in NL - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641
- dennis2005 13y ago
  That wierd building is "De Oldehove", an unfinished church tower. It leans more than the tower of Pisa in Italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower)
- soulclap 13y ago
  Great find! The dummy patient thing is quite creepy. I am kind of waiting for the jump scare all the time.
kintamanimatt 13y ago
One person has an exposed webcam in what appears to be their bedroom! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Francisco%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Fran...
- DouweM 13y ago
  They're not the only ones: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 And their living room where they're currently watching TV: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 Damn, this is creepy.
  - highpixels 13y ago
    Guy seems to be naked on the bed watching TV now. Thankfully the camera's very pixelated.
  - dwild 13y ago
    It's creepier than you think, currently the first feed you gave they are in bed and the guy is playing on what look like a Nintendo 3DS and he is naked...
  - cdrxndr 13y ago
    Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now. This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds: http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-webcams/ http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-we...
  - mech4bg 13y ago
    The bedroom one is labeled "Sleep Camera" in dutch... I wonder if it's on purpose?
    - jk4930 13y ago
      Kamer means room. The slaapkamer then is the bedroom. The other one ("Woonkamer") is the living room.
jere 13y ago
Neat. Raleigh, NC was on the first page and I think I remember that exact camera. We used to post webcam feeds when I was an undergrad at NC State. In fact, this one time was pretty amusing (and there's a long story associated with it): http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/120_540487511649_4904_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/120_540487511649_... http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/112_540487222229_2862_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/112_540487222229_...
- martindale 13y ago
  It's on the first page for me too. What's the story? I live and work here in the area.
  - jere 13y ago
    tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology. Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury. While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account. Scheming, virus writing, social engineering. Definitely one of my finer moments. I documented some of the events here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.2130592.11801395&type=1&l=ec481181b5 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.213059...
anewaccount 13y ago
Eeep. A day care: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22Key%20West%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22Key%20We...
looki 13y ago
This is interesting.. and kinda creepy. I'm having the hardest time finding a webcam that can be controlled, though.
- justadude 13y ago
  From the train set link, you can start the train from this one http://extcam-11.se.axis.com/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=64 http://extcam-11.se.axis.com/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=64
PebblesRox 13y ago
Here's a nice relaxing swimming pool: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877
fla 13y ago
Rack monitoring http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156 Edit: some other findings Mouses : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548 Caltech Submillimeter Observatory: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447 Stange machine (any idea what it is?) : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900
- caissy 13y ago
  Another one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779
- jeroen94704 13y ago
  It says ANLEMC-Titan. Googling for ANLEMC reveals it has to do with telepresence microscopy. That leads me to believe that machine may be a FEI Company Titan electron microscope: http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscopes/titan.aspx http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscope...
ctz 13y ago
I just watched two people enter their PINs at a Domino's Pizza somewhere in London. The camera in question has historic playback, too. WTF.
- drippingfist 13y ago
  Yeah. I wonder where that is. At first I thought it was actually in the City of London.
pointernil 13y ago
What an ingenious understanding of security ;) http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323
- pja 13y ago
  That is hilarious and bad and wrong. All at the same time.
- DanBC 13y ago
  Schneier has, from 2006, people pointing webcams at securid tokens!! (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_t.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_...) Here's a Stackoverflow question from someone who is expected to OCR the webcam so they can programatically use the securid token (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fob-security-token http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fo...) And here's a really nice write up, with perl, about OCRing securid tokens. (http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf) (http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html) I saw the link you posted. I laughed! it was funny. Then I searched, and a whole bunch of people do it.
bliker 13y ago
somebody will soon discover some murder or something
mkosler 13y ago
I think I saw a shark in this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24248 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24248 Looks like a model train set: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939
jeroen94704 13y ago
These people are currently (19:40 CET) having dinner: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22813 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22813
zwegner 13y ago
A cat is chilling in front of this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=8617 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=8617
- chocolate_ 13y ago
  When I clicked, there was a dog running all over the place.
  - Ovid 13y ago
    Nope. It's a cat again :)
newman314 13y ago
Inside a datacenter cage complete with Exadata. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 Yeah, that's good security right there. MOAR: Dead bird?? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7972 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7972
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  Bird's feathers are moving slightly, seems to be alive to me, unless there's a fierce wind or something.
  - xsc 13y ago
    just moved his head
    - chocolate_ 13y ago
      Yep. Bird started voluntarily moving. I was getting concerned.
      - sanarothe 13y ago
        Concerned for the bird, or concerned that someone had a webcam stream of a dead bird? :)
- slig 13y ago
  It's not dead, it's just resting.
- jleader 13y ago
  The one with the bird looks like Peregrine Falcon nesting boxes I've seen on skyscrapers around here; I suspect the bird's sleeping.
jacquesm 13y ago
The popularity of snooping on other people's lives will never cease to amaze me. Some of the sentiment in this thread is what has powered ww.com for 15 years now, and I still don't get it. I'm not complaining though :)
- marshray 13y ago
  Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent. Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that. Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.
zwegner 13y ago
I guess this one is playing a joke on us? It's a feed of what looks like some old Japanese movie: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115
- hkmurakami 13y ago
  Hmm my best guess is that it's Chinese.
  - zwegner 13y ago
    Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.
    - solistice 13y ago
      Taiwanese -> Complicated Letters Chinese -> Less complicated letters Japanese -> Rounder letters. Just a rule of thumb. The modern chinese letters are a simplified version of those taiwan still uses, and describe entire words. Whilst Chinese is looks more stroked, Japanese looks a little more organic, even though yes, unless you know either of them, they're still hard to differentiate.
sthomas1618 13y ago
Wow, this is both terrifying and fascinating. The FAQ mentioned viewing these is a legal grey area. Anybody know about the legality of this in the United States?
brentm 13y ago
This just reminds me of the start to a terrible movie. I feel like I am going to see something bad happen.
- pilgrim689 13y ago
  It (publically available cameras) actually is the basis of a French thriller released in 2011 called "Aux yeux de tous"... pretty good movie!
mediocregopher 13y ago
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=181 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=181 A large sharktank in sweden
brokentone 13y ago
Dog training? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24142 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24142
- dubfan 13y ago
  It seems a lot of these places have webcams. I guess it makes sense, if there's a dogfight or a dog attacks a trainer you'd want some video evidence of it.
nemothekid 13y ago
Saw someone I know in a cam that is being broadcasted from my university. Weird.
iriche 13y ago
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5577 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5577 Ironic
- mrtksn 13y ago
  this is one boring job. the guy does weird things from time to time.
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- ushi 13y ago
  When these coordinates are correct, i doubt he has something better to do: http://goo.gl/maps/hSz7r http://goo.gl/maps/hSz7r
georgemcbay 13y ago
Sun Microsystems still representing at UCSD: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899
- hkmurakami 13y ago
  Gosh I remember walking around my college campus one day and coming across some random computer cluster in the CS building, hopped onto one of the machines (that said "Sun Microsystems" embossed somewhere one it), proceeding to be utterly confused by the KDE applications and interface. (I was purely a Win user back then) I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
  - james2vegas 13y ago
    s/KDE/CDE/ ?
- runlevel1 13y ago
  That's one of my racks! I've always wondered who controlled that camera. That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos. EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.
tkahn6 13y ago
This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40
- dubfan 13y ago
  I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
  - marshray 13y ago
    Often, geolocation is no better than to the regional ISP.
- dmcclurg 13y ago
  Yep, that is the library...grad of '07
- bloaf 13y ago
  Indeed, but I think we have to realize that not all these open cameras are security failings. Some universities and towns just have open cameras so that curious people can watch. I know that Purdue had one near where the band would practice marching so that parents could see the band more frequently.
shocks 13y ago
Firefox Nightly, 23.0a1 (2013-04-13) is crashing a lot for me while I view these cams. (I guess that's what I get for using Nightly >.<)
- jwandborg 13y ago
  I have the same issue with 22.0a2 (2013-04-06). Aurora went unresponsive, does not respond to SIGTERM. It even managed to exhaust all my memory when I wasn't using the computer while the page loaded, when I came back to the computer I couldn't start any new processes - Not even a shell or tty.
- ladzoppelin 13y ago
  Same thing here with Aurora. Is it crashing for anyone using regular Firefox?
  - jk4930 13y ago
    This one (16.0.2) runs fine.
- bhaile 13y ago
  Works for me just fine on FF 20.0.1.
gzur 13y ago
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345 Guy on facebook watching TV
ed56 13y ago
There's a spider in front of this one. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22466 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22466
- bcl 13y ago
  Spiders are big PITA for security cameras. I have to brush their webs off my outdoor cameras at least weekly.
- kyberias 13y ago
  It's gone.
  - martin_ 13y ago
    It's back!
salmanapk 13y ago
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3A%22North+Korea%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3A%22North... Holy shit!
C1D 13y ago
This is amazing but also sad at the same time. Its amazing that people don't realize what connecting something to the internet means but sad because I've found some webcams inside peoples homes, I won't post the URLs for their own safety/privacy.
bsnape 13y ago
This looks fun: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35941 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35941 Baseball: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35918 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35918 Some sort of dog kennel: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 Kid and dad playing video games: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35548 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35548 Cockroach cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24313 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24313
bajsejohannes 13y ago
Huh. Today I learned about Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace". The webcam images are jpegs that are continously replaced by the server in the same HTTP response. It's the smoothest live webcam transmission I've seen so far. Relevant headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=--myboundary Content-Length: 99999999 Cache-control: no-cache, must revalidate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace
- samholmes 13y ago
  It's not so smooth for me. :(
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Linkd 13y ago
Oh wow.. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 This one is from what looks like someones living room a few minutes away from me. Where are these precise coordinates coming from?
dubfan 13y ago
A zoo in Miyazaki, Japan: Llamas or alpacas? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19208 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19208 Flamingos: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=23564 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=23564 Monkeys: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20433 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20433 Giraffes, zebras, ostriches: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19583 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19583 Waterfowl: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22596 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22596
- idontevenknow 13y ago
  flamingos added to http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com/ http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com/ :)
idontevenknow 13y ago
compilation @ http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com
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nazgulnarsil 13y ago
Panopticon now in open beta.
russomi 13y ago
Jamaica - 2x3 (http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3AJAM&cols=2&rows=3 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3AJAM&...)
leot 13y ago
This is beautiful: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292 Ironic/meta: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942
duck 13y ago
Someone keeping an eye on their cars: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=841 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=841
hello_newman 13y ago
This is cool, but really creepy at the same time. I guess some people don't really consider the ramifications of putting a webcam online. Side note, a horse and her baby! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392
darkz 13y ago
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 WIN
wluu 13y ago
Network rack, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070 Chickens, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410 It's kinda weird, I'm just pressing "random" and seeing what comes up. There seems to be more than a few that are "street" views, which gives you view of certain cities. So that's kinda interesting.
- alex_doom 13y ago
  Someone's house ... or porn set http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2600 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2600
cuppy 13y ago
Child labor in vietnam? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200
- marshray 13y ago
  Looks to me like a retail shop for baby supplies. Unless that lady is picking out diapers and a brightly colored uniform for their new employee. :-)
curiousdannii 13y ago
Playing guess-the-country on random is fun!
Ecio78 13y ago
Remote sensing.. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7283 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7283
wingspan 13y ago
Looks like Windows 98 fed directly into a cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27279 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27279
- miahi 13y ago
  Looks like a monitor for a Philips CM Electron Microscope.
  - omarali 13y ago
    http://146.139.72.72/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=2 http://146.139.72.72/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=2
- solistice 13y ago
  How else are you going to record and remote view the monitor?
draftable 13y ago
Im cancelling my sports package now: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3AAlbacete http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3AAlbacete
aleksandrm 13y ago
Anyone know what this might be? Looks like some kind of boats in a pond with solar panels in them? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11
em05 13y ago
Once i wrote SurveillanceSaver. A screensaver with random webcam streams. Eventually Google blocked searching for cameras and people recognized their cameras are unprotected. http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438 http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438 This is the web service behind it. Unfortunately the list is not up to date anymore. https://code.google.com/p/public-viewpoints https://code.google.com/p/public-viewpoints
yoran 13y ago
Does anyone know how these open streaming webcams are detected? Do they stream on a particular port? By the way, this is really creepy and the people having those webcams should at least be aware of it.
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knassy 13y ago
Gun shop in France http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4432 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4432
bbayer 13y ago
that was the interesting one I have seen. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=82 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=82
cygwin98 13y ago
For those are curious about how the guy found all these webcams. Here is the answer from his FAQ: Various techniques. A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. If you've never heard of Shodan before, I recommend watching these videos by Dan Tentler. Whilst I'm hat-tipping people, I should also give a shout-out to the /r/controllablewebcams community on reddit who helped promote this viewer.

170 points by taintlove 13y ago

pja 13y ago

Radio Observatory in Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18311 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18311

hkmurakami 13y ago
Darn, now I wish I had visited this place (or just ride by it) when I was a student there :(
- pja 13y ago
  It's quite a long way out of Cambridge! http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory&hl=en&ll=52.172984,0.066948&spn=0.095907,0.140762&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=12.104955,18.017578&hq=mullard+radio+observatory&t=m&z=13 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory&#3... Still being used as part of the UK synthetic aperture radio telescope IIRC, along with Jodrell bank and a few other sites dotted around the UK.
lvs 13y ago
Unhealthy Food Observatory in the other Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785

fcoury 13y ago

Hospital bed with a dummy patient - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=1176 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=1176 http://128.175.94.76/image http://128.175.94.76/image Edit: also, weird building in NL - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641

dennis2005 13y ago
That wierd building is "De Oldehove", an unfinished church tower. It leans more than the tower of Pisa in Italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldehove_(tower)
soulclap 13y ago
Great find! The dummy patient thing is quite creepy. I am kind of waiting for the jump scare all the time.

kintamanimatt 13y ago

One person has an exposed webcam in what appears to be their bedroom! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Francisco%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Fran...

DouweM 13y ago
They're not the only ones: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 And their living room where they're currently watching TV: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 Damn, this is creepy.
- highpixels 13y ago
  Guy seems to be naked on the bed watching TV now. Thankfully the camera's very pixelated.
- dwild 13y ago
  It's creepier than you think, currently the first feed you gave they are in bed and the guy is playing on what look like a Nintendo 3DS and he is naked...
- cdrxndr 13y ago
  Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now. This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds: http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-webcams/ http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-we...
- mech4bg 13y ago
  The bedroom one is labeled "Sleep Camera" in dutch... I wonder if it's on purpose?
  - jk4930 13y ago
    Kamer means room. The slaapkamer then is the bedroom. The other one ("Woonkamer") is the living room.

jere 13y ago

Neat. Raleigh, NC was on the first page and I think I remember that exact camera. We used to post webcam feeds when I was an undergrad at NC State. In fact, this one time was pretty amusing (and there's a long story associated with it): http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/120_540487511649_4904_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/120_540487511649_... http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/112_540487222229_2862_n.jpg http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/112_540487222229_...

martindale 13y ago
It's on the first page for me too. What's the story? I live and work here in the area.
- jere 13y ago
  tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology. Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury. While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account. Scheming, virus writing, social engineering. Definitely one of my finer moments. I documented some of the events here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.2130592.11801395&type=1&l=ec481181b5 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.213059...

anewaccount 13y ago

Eeep. A day care: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22Key%20West%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22Key%20We...

looki 13y ago

This is interesting.. and kinda creepy. I'm having the hardest time finding a webcam that can be controlled, though.

justadude 13y ago
From the train set link, you can start the train from this one http://extcam-11.se.axis.com/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=64 http://extcam-11.se.axis.com/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=64

PebblesRox 13y ago

Here's a nice relaxing swimming pool: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877

fla 13y ago

Rack monitoring http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156 Edit: some other findings Mouses : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548 Caltech Submillimeter Observatory: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447 Stange machine (any idea what it is?) : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900

caissy 13y ago
Another one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779
jeroen94704 13y ago
It says ANLEMC-Titan. Googling for ANLEMC reveals it has to do with telepresence microscopy. That leads me to believe that machine may be a FEI Company Titan electron microscope: http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscopes/titan.aspx http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscope...

ctz 13y ago

I just watched two people enter their PINs at a Domino's Pizza somewhere in London. The camera in question has historic playback, too. WTF.

drippingfist 13y ago
Yeah. I wonder where that is. At first I thought it was actually in the City of London.

pointernil 13y ago

What an ingenious understanding of security ;) http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4323

pja 13y ago
That is hilarious and bad and wrong. All at the same time.
DanBC 13y ago
Schneier has, from 2006, people pointing webcams at securid tokens!! (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_t.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_...) Here's a Stackoverflow question from someone who is expected to OCR the webcam so they can programatically use the securid token (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fob-security-token http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fo...) And here's a really nice write up, with perl, about OCRing securid tokens. (http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf) (http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html) I saw the link you posted. I laughed! it was funny. Then I searched, and a whole bunch of people do it.

bliker 13y ago

somebody will soon discover some murder or something

mkosler 13y ago

I think I saw a shark in this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24248 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24248 Looks like a model train set: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939

jeroen94704 13y ago

These people are currently (19:40 CET) having dinner: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22813 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22813

zwegner 13y ago

A cat is chilling in front of this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=8617 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=8617

chocolate_ 13y ago
When I clicked, there was a dog running all over the place.
- Ovid 13y ago
  Nope. It's a cat again :)

newman314 13y ago

Inside a datacenter cage complete with Exadata. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779 Yeah, that's good security right there. MOAR: Dead bird?? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7972 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7972

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
Bird's feathers are moving slightly, seems to be alive to me, unless there's a fierce wind or something.
- xsc 13y ago
  just moved his head
  - chocolate_ 13y ago
    Yep. Bird started voluntarily moving. I was getting concerned.
    - sanarothe 13y ago
      Concerned for the bird, or concerned that someone had a webcam stream of a dead bird? :)
slig 13y ago
It's not dead, it's just resting.
jleader 13y ago
The one with the bird looks like Peregrine Falcon nesting boxes I've seen on skyscrapers around here; I suspect the bird's sleeping.

jacquesm 13y ago

The popularity of snooping on other people's lives will never cease to amaze me. Some of the sentiment in this thread is what has powered ww.com for 15 years now, and I still don't get it. I'm not complaining though :)

marshray 13y ago
Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent. Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that. Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.

zwegner 13y ago

I guess this one is playing a joke on us? It's a feed of what looks like some old Japanese movie: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115

hkmurakami 13y ago
Hmm my best guess is that it's Chinese.
- zwegner 13y ago
  Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.
  - solistice 13y ago
    Taiwanese -> Complicated Letters Chinese -> Less complicated letters Japanese -> Rounder letters. Just a rule of thumb. The modern chinese letters are a simplified version of those taiwan still uses, and describe entire words. Whilst Chinese is looks more stroked, Japanese looks a little more organic, even though yes, unless you know either of them, they're still hard to differentiate.

sthomas1618 13y ago

Wow, this is both terrifying and fascinating. The FAQ mentioned viewing these is a legal grey area. Anybody know about the legality of this in the United States?

brentm 13y ago

This just reminds me of the start to a terrible movie. I feel like I am going to see something bad happen.

pilgrim689 13y ago
It (publically available cameras) actually is the basis of a French thriller released in 2011 called "Aux yeux de tous"... pretty good movie!

mediocregopher 13y ago

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=181 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=181 A large sharktank in sweden

brokentone 13y ago

Dog training? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24142 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24142

dubfan 13y ago
It seems a lot of these places have webcams. I guess it makes sense, if there's a dogfight or a dog attacks a trainer you'd want some video evidence of it.

nemothekid 13y ago

Saw someone I know in a cam that is being broadcasted from my university. Weird.

iriche 13y ago

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5577 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5577 Ironic

mrtksn 13y ago
this is one boring job. the guy does weird things from time to time.
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ushi 13y ago
When these coordinates are correct, i doubt he has something better to do: http://goo.gl/maps/hSz7r http://goo.gl/maps/hSz7r

georgemcbay 13y ago

Sun Microsystems still representing at UCSD: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899

hkmurakami 13y ago
Gosh I remember walking around my college campus one day and coming across some random computer cluster in the CS building, hopped onto one of the machines (that said "Sun Microsystems" embossed somewhere one it), proceeding to be utterly confused by the KDE applications and interface. (I was purely a Win user back then) I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
- james2vegas 13y ago
  s/KDE/CDE/ ?
runlevel1 13y ago
That's one of my racks! I've always wondered who controlled that camera. That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos. EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.

tkahn6 13y ago

This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40

dubfan 13y ago
I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
- marshray 13y ago
  Often, geolocation is no better than to the regional ISP.
dmcclurg 13y ago
Yep, that is the library...grad of '07
bloaf 13y ago
Indeed, but I think we have to realize that not all these open cameras are security failings. Some universities and towns just have open cameras so that curious people can watch. I know that Purdue had one near where the band would practice marching so that parents could see the band more frequently.

shocks 13y ago

Firefox Nightly, 23.0a1 (2013-04-13) is crashing a lot for me while I view these cams. (I guess that's what I get for using Nightly >.<)

jwandborg 13y ago
I have the same issue with 22.0a2 (2013-04-06). Aurora went unresponsive, does not respond to SIGTERM. It even managed to exhaust all my memory when I wasn't using the computer while the page loaded, when I came back to the computer I couldn't start any new processes - Not even a shell or tty.
ladzoppelin 13y ago
Same thing here with Aurora. Is it crashing for anyone using regular Firefox?
- jk4930 13y ago
  This one (16.0.2) runs fine.
bhaile 13y ago
Works for me just fine on FF 20.0.1.

gzur 13y ago

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345 Guy on facebook watching TV

ed56 13y ago

There's a spider in front of this one. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22466 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22466

bcl 13y ago
Spiders are big PITA for security cameras. I have to brush their webs off my outdoor cameras at least weekly.
kyberias 13y ago
It's gone.
- martin_ 13y ago
  It's back!

salmanapk 13y ago

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3A%22North+Korea%22 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3A%22North... Holy shit!

C1D 13y ago

This is amazing but also sad at the same time. Its amazing that people don't realize what connecting something to the internet means but sad because I've found some webcams inside peoples homes, I won't post the URLs for their own safety/privacy.

bsnape 13y ago

This looks fun: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35941 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35941 Baseball: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35918 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35918 Some sort of dog kennel: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 Kid and dad playing video games: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35548 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=35548 Cockroach cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24313 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24313

bajsejohannes 13y ago

Huh. Today I learned about Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace". The webcam images are jpegs that are continously replaced by the server in the same HTTP response. It's the smoothest live webcam transmission I've seen so far. Relevant headers: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Connection: close Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=--myboundary Content-Length: 99999999 Cache-control: no-cache, must revalidate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace

samholmes 13y ago
It's not so smooth for me. :(

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Linkd 13y ago

Oh wow.. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 This one is from what looks like someones living room a few minutes away from me. Where are these precise coordinates coming from?

dubfan 13y ago

A zoo in Miyazaki, Japan: Llamas or alpacas? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19208 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19208 Flamingos: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=23564 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=23564 Monkeys: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20433 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20433 Giraffes, zebras, ostriches: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19583 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19583 Waterfowl: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22596 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22596

idontevenknow 13y ago
flamingos added to http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com/ http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com/ :)

idontevenknow 13y ago

compilation @ http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com http://interestingwebcams.tumblr.com

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nazgulnarsil 13y ago

Panopticon now in open beta.

russomi 13y ago

Jamaica - 2x3 (http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3AJAM&cols=2&rows=3 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=country%3AJAM&...)

leot 13y ago

This is beautiful: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292 Ironic/meta: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942

duck 13y ago

Someone keeping an eye on their cars: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=841 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=841

hello_newman 13y ago

This is cool, but really creepy at the same time. I guess some people don't really consider the ramifications of putting a webcam online. Side note, a horse and her baby! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392

darkz 13y ago

http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36541 WIN

wluu 13y ago

Network rack, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070 Chickens, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410 It's kinda weird, I'm just pressing "random" and seeing what comes up. There seems to be more than a few that are "street" views, which gives you view of certain cities. So that's kinda interesting.

alex_doom 13y ago
Someone's house ... or porn set http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2600 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2600

cuppy 13y ago

Child labor in vietnam? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200

marshray 13y ago
Looks to me like a retail shop for baby supplies. Unless that lady is picking out diapers and a brightly colored uniform for their new employee. :-)

curiousdannii 13y ago

Playing guess-the-country on random is fun!

Ecio78 13y ago

Remote sensing.. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7283 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7283

wingspan 13y ago

Looks like Windows 98 fed directly into a cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27279 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27279

miahi 13y ago
Looks like a monitor for a Philips CM Electron Microscope.
- omarali 13y ago
  http://146.139.72.72/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=2 http://146.139.72.72/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgi?camera=2
solistice 13y ago
How else are you going to record and remote view the monitor?

draftable 13y ago

Im cancelling my sports package now: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3AAlbacete http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3AAlbacete

aleksandrm 13y ago

Anyone know what this might be? Looks like some kind of boats in a pond with solar panels in them? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11

em05 13y ago

Once i wrote SurveillanceSaver. A screensaver with random webcam streams. Eventually Google blocked searching for cameras and people recognized their cameras are unprotected. http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438 http://i.document.m05.de/?page_id=438 This is the web service behind it. Unfortunately the list is not up to date anymore. https://code.google.com/p/public-viewpoints https://code.google.com/p/public-viewpoints

yoran 13y ago

Does anyone know how these open streaming webcams are detected? Do they stream on a particular port? By the way, this is really creepy and the people having those webcams should at least be aware of it.

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knassy 13y ago

Gun shop in France http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4432 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4432

bbayer 13y ago

that was the interesting one I have seen. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=82 http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=82

cygwin98 13y ago

For those are curious about how the guy found all these webcams. Here is the answer from his FAQ: Various techniques. A lot of cameras can be found using Google if you know which search string to use (and you have a lot of patience). I also used Shodan (a search engine created by John Matherly) to get a large number of potential webcam feeds. If you've never heard of Shodan before, I recommend watching these videos by Dan Tentler. Whilst I'm hat-tipping people, I should also give a shout-out to the /r/controllablewebcams community on reddit who helped promote this viewer.