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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.

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How do you manage that? I tried setting up a specialized directory of type-related websites and pages back around 1999–2001 and trying to find contact info for websites was difficult then when people still had public WHOIS info most of the time. I can’t imagine any scalable way to be able to connect to the owners of cams where you have little more than an IP address to work from.

(Not sure how much metadata there is on the site since it’s currently suffering the hug of death so I can’t see anything at the moment.)

Perhaps the providers should offer a way similar to abuse etc. because these Cameras are probably used in botnets as well.

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