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Comment by mirimir | Hacker News Reader

Huh. I recall coming across a Tor onion site with links to various security cam systems. Nothing exciting, just live video of lobbies, elevators, parking lots and garages, etc.

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Back in the 90s a friend had modified his Realistic brand radio scanner to pick up cell phone frequencies. Nothing was encrypted back then. One of the calls we heard was of a computer generated voice repeating the phone number, the "internal temperature" and then a thirty second audio feed of what sounded like machinery. Every time I tried calling the number, it was the same thing though the temperature varied by a couple of degrees now and then. Never heard any voices or much variety in the machine noises. No idea what it was other than some local factory.

The condo building I lived in during the 2000s had its server with all of the video cameras hacked. Probably the most exciting thing anyone could see was the fitness room with people exercising. We had no idea if anyone actually bothered watching the feeds or if it was just part of a botnet.

Huh. Remote equipment maintenance?

Then there's this: https://gizmodo.com/these-secret-cold-war-radio-stations-are...

It's strange when you come across those.

With the right search words you can find plenty of those on https://www.shodan.io/

edit: I found this one [1] just by searching for webcam. Seems to be from some factory.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/WevJodh.png

That’s a camera trained on a 3D printer, not from a factory. Quite popular with hobbyists to monitor the progress of prints.

Are you sure it wasn't just a plain old website? There was one posted here a few years ago (and I thought the site went down but it's actually still going):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13272112

I have recently scanned addresses within a radius of my town and there's still a lot of cameras with default credentials or with no password at all. It's getting better over the years, but not quite.

Quite a lot of Ultimaker 3D printers in there, that wasn't the case a couple of years ago. And factory floors/production lines in general. Remains fascinating, and awkward.

I'm pretty sure that it was an onion site.

But Insecam is amazing :)

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