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Someone wanting to force US legislative action on this might be so inclined to create a site that live streams video from cameras across the country, searchable
by mratzloff 11y ago
Someone wanting to force US legislative action on this might be so inclined to create a site that live streams video from cameras across the country, searchable by city.
- fixermark 11y agoI mean, that already exists; it's called Shodan, and it lets you search the webcam output of cams that have their security improperly configured and are dumping data in the open. The engine: https://www.shodan.io/ https://www.shodan.io/ The Ars Technica story: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/how-to-search-the-internet-of-things-for-photos-of-sleeping-babies/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/how-to-search-the-in... ... and still the public does not care.
- zardo 11y agoIf anything, people would think of it as evil hackers breaking into their webcams, the legal solution would be harsher punishments for computer crimes.
- mratzloff 11y agoShodan is really not at all what I had in mind. I wouldn't expect the public to get worked up over it. You show it in a news report and people shrug because it's a search engine with text results.
- fixermark 11y agoCheck the Ars article. The images.shodan.io feed (available to paid accounts) allows you to get the actual feed data.
- achillean 11y agoNote that Shodan grabs a snapshot/ image for many different services, there isn't a focus on webcams and the way Ars characterized it was slightly misleading. And Shodan doesn't show you a feed: it provides a snapshot/ image of the moment that the crawler saw the device - there are no live streams or any special support for webcams.