IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet

Ako03

Is it legal to have such a website?

dbmikus

Really freaky seeing how many of these are bedrooms.

elliotbnvl

Definitely an invasion of privacy. I can’t visit this website in good faith. It should be taken down. The point is valuable, and the mission is important, but the ends do not justify the means. If this must be shared, at least use static pictures and don’t stream the content for viewers.

ragebol

Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db

bensons1

Nothing changed compared to 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20151013010243/http://internetce... > As a rule of thumb, if you believe that "nobody would connect that to the Internet, really nobody", there are at least 1000 people who did.

halperter

This website---naturally, I think---weirds me out. Many of these cameras are in private spaces, with some places you most certainly don't want people to have live feeds of. It's quite disturbing how you can see personal snapshots of people's lives without them knowing. There's a perverse feeling of dread about being able to see into someone's life and being able to paradoxically watch someone eat dinner alone, seemingly so detatched from human connection even with someone watching like some kind of otherworldly spectator.

davidvaughan

Droitwich, UK, is a bit revealing.

nemothekid

Off topic: Is there anyone doing any research on how to use Claude/Agents to design websites that don't look so, "Claude"?

johnmkane

I feel like a small group of Geo Guesser pros could organize a nice competition for them selves and at the same time make a big service to lots of people.

realty_geek

Seems a bit shifty to be honest... What is the goal? And they've created a reddit page specifically for this!

QuantumNomad_

Hehe, this one has a feeding tray with a novelty sign on it: > Baiting deer is illegal! > This corn pile is intended for squirrels, chipmunks, and other such critters. > Any deer found eating this corn will be shot! https://ipcrawl.com/fun/c/373ef0178c5281a5

andrewstuart

Imagine if someone put plausible but strange/shocking fake videos on an open port for the voyeurs to think real and freak out about.

bewal416

All these “is this ethical” comments remind of similar discussions happening in the IMG_0416 articles, about YouTube video that were most likely not meant to be scene publicly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506

jrochkind1

What, no plotting on a map?

applicative

I thought it all had to be fake but, thinking it would be innocent, did watch what seems to have been the priests’s concluding procession for 430 Saturday vigil at St Martin of Tours in Louisville which I had to labor a bit to identify At first I thought ‘who goes to church Saturday afternoon’ - and not a bad crowd for Louisville on a Saturday afternoon. God knows how such a thing turns up.

fuzzfactor

There's a number of streams from resorts and swimming pools, may be a good idea in case kids get into trouble around the water. Adults too, if you had a pool like this wouldn't everybody want to share their "sex pool party cam"? https://ipcrawl.com/?page=7&cam=398d4f57a3155d42

PhilipRoman

Hah, someone from UK seems to have a camera pointing to his cannabis plants... Hopefully the guy has a "loicense" for that, otherwise it would be a hilarious way to get busted

djeastm

I think the author of the website should next work on some kind of alerting system for the owners of these webcams to let them know they're exposed and how to make them private. Then everyone could get what they want: voyeurs can watch exhibitionists like God intended.

naturalmovement

Everyone: For a moment forget everything you know about computers and wonder if perhaps 99% of normies are just following the directions on the package of their $19 Chinese IP camera. They have no idea what a firewall is, or what the "public internet" even means. There's also a difference between your neighbor not closing her blinds and you using a telescope to look inside her apartment, which is what sites like this are.

spzb

This seems to just be a map interface to Shodan Images. I've found the exact same camera with the exact same snapshot on both sites. https://images.shodan.io/?query=port%3A554+country%3A%22GB%2... https://ipcrawl.com/imce?cam=069b2971c357edbd