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I was able to find a few still working - in England: leamington spa, birmingham, Bradford (appears to be covered in cobweb!) Carlisle, etc.

EDIT: I'm going to be spending hours on this today!

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Heh, it looks like ShodanHQ now has a section entirely dedicated to this... https://www.shodan.io/search?query=Server%3A+SQ-WEBCAM -- using their API, and a geoip database (eg: maxmind) you could build something similar in a couple of hours.

You should also be aware that you just admitted to breaking the law in most countries.

Edit: I take that back. I assumed "open" meant a default or insecure password

Wait, aren't these public?

Unfortunately in the hacking world, "access" doesn't mean legal access. Even, if it's there on a webserver with no login/password and directly on /index.html

It's a completely fucked situation we're in, with the CFAA law. It allows the feds to charge anyone they like, cause they used a network.

I guess we're supposed to fax the owners before we submit a TCP connection with their machines, but we'd probably run aground of fax spam laws.....

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