Have you ever wanted to see what was going on in a bakery on the other side of the world? How about seeing into top secret labs? Or maybe even a police car's dash camera. With the following information you can not only see through the eyes of "Big Brother", but you can zoom, pan, tilt, capture & save images, and even reset the directions the security cameras face!
Steps
- Open up your web browser. Browsers that support tabbing (such as Firefox, and newer versions of Internet Explorer) are better, because you can have quick access to many open webpages, instead of having to always open a new instance of the web browser.
- Using the browser, go to a search engine of your choice, and input any of the following search queries:
- inurl:"CgiStart?page="(disconnected)
- inurl:/view.shtml disconnected#*intitle:”Live View / - AXIS
- inurl:view/view.shtml
- inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
- inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
- inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
- inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG) (disconnected)
- inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
- inurl:view/index.shtml
- inurl:view/view.shtml
- liveapplet
- intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
- intitle:liveapplet
- allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
- intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
- intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
- intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
- intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
- intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206M”
- intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 206W”
- intitle:”Live View / - AXIS 210″
- inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
- inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion” (disconnected)
- intitle:start inurl:cgistart
- intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
- intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
- intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
- intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
- intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
- intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
- site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
- intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
- intitle:”netcam live image” (disconnected)
- intitle:”i-Catcher Console - Web Monitor”
- After you Google one of these queries, you will see some search results, click on any one of them.
- Then you will either see a whole bunch of images of a security camera ,or the screen of a single camera.
- Depending on the type of camera that you have access too, you may be able to zoom, pan, and tilt the camera to see what you want to.
- If you want, you can use a screen capture program to take images and store them to your computer (or you can do this by pressing 'print screen' ('print sc') and opening 'Paint', then pasting it (ctrl+v), cropping the image (highlight the section that you want to delete, using the tool on the side and press' delete' or ctrl+x) and saving the image), or using a screen recording program do record the video stream. Some camera control panels will have image exporting options built in.
- After you get tired of one camera go back and try another, there are thousands.
Tips
- If you wanted to look through a certain camera you need to find the link for that camera and it needs to be a CCTV(Closed Circit Television) camera. CCTV cameras are cameras that are connected to the web and can be veiwed by goin to the link on the inside of the packaging when the camera is purchased. If you are not sure of the link of a camera other than your's there is really no way of veiwing it unless you have the Serial number were you can then contact the manufacter for the link. So, unless it is a well-Known camera (ex. Mnt. Rushmore) then it maybe difficult to veiw.
- Only works on security cameras that are connected to the net.
- If you cannot pan the camera, check the top of the control panel. If it displays "Locked" the motion controls for the camera have been disables by the devices administrator.
- If any of the links do not work, don't delete them just add "disconnected" next to them, in parentheses, thank you!
- Using anonymous proxies can help protect your ip address from monitoring.
- The most interesting cameras are usually the ones that do not list a domain name, just an IP address
- For more Camera links of different Kinds go to http://www.livewebcams.org.uk/tiki-directory_browse.php
Warnings
- Even though this is not illegal do not try this with out using a browser you could get in some trouble with the individual owner of the camera.
- Do not do this at school, most schools will have monitoring software in place so that they can see what you are doing. It is best to read your school's guidelines for computer use.
- Do not repeatedly maintain long or continuous connections to the feed (30 minutes is a good limit). Access logs for the devices can be created, and may be monitored by administrators. Many administrators will disregard brief attempts to access low importance devices when no harmful use is found. However, long periods of monitoring will likely attract suspicion and may cause the accessing IP address to be reported to authorities. You can always Change your IP Address (Windows), however, this may or may not protect you depending on both your network set-up and the tracking policies of your internet Service Provider. If you have a network, this could cause problems with your network settings if done incorrectly.
- I have researched CCTV viewing and it is not illegal to view, it is only illegal if you break through an existing login system for the camera. In the UK however you will soon need a license to own a CCTV camera.
