Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-13 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote:

I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as

if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of terrorist web
sites,
being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I couldn't read the language.

But government and its presses know best.





Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-12 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:20 PM 1/9/05 -0600, Riad S. Wahby wrote:

I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as

if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

I'm similarly annoyed that articles omit the URLs of terrorist web
sites,
being forced to check ogrish.com, even if I couldn't read the language.

But government and its presses know best.





Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-11 Thread Anton Raath
Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as
 if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

A fairly comprehensive list of search strings per camera/manufacturer
can be found here:

http://www.i-hacked.com/Computer-Components/Software-Internet/Finding-Online-Webcams!.html

A!
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Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-11 Thread Anton Raath
Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as
 if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

A fairly comprehensive list of search strings per camera/manufacturer
can be found here:

http://www.i-hacked.com/Computer-Components/Software-Internet/Finding-Online-Webcams!.html

A!
-- 
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Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
  -- Dylan Thomas
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Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Eugen Leitl

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242
Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-01-09 15:00:00

   from the pick-a-password-people dept.
   An anonymous reader writes Blogs and message forums buzzed this week
   with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits
   [1]access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around
   the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge. Apparently
   many of the cams are even aimable. Oops!

   [2]Click Here 

References

   1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_surveillance_cams_open_to_all/
   2. 
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5717alloc_id=12468site_id=1request_id=231150op=clickpage=%2farticle%2epl

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Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits

I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as
if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22

Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling
revealed.  (There's something strangely meta about using google to
discover a google search string.)

-- 
Riad S. Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Riad S. Wahby
Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits

I love how all of the coverage leaves out the actual search strings, as
if it's hard to discover what they are at this point.

http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22

Perhaps there are others as well; this is what 10 seconds of googling
revealed.  (There's something strangely meta about using google to
discover a google search string.)

-- 
Riad S. Wahby
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams

2005-01-09 Thread Eugen Leitl

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/09/1411242
Posted by: CmdrTaco, on 2005-01-09 15:00:00

   from the pick-a-password-people dept.
   An anonymous reader writes Blogs and message forums buzzed this week
   with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits
   [1]access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around
   the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge. Apparently
   many of the cams are even aimable. Oops!

   [2]Click Here 

References

   1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_surveillance_cams_open_to_all/
   2. 
http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5717alloc_id=12468site_id=1request_id=231150op=clickpage=%2farticle%2epl

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