99.9% of normies have a router NATing all their traffic
It takes active effort to expose a camera publicly
It takes active effort to expose a camera publicly
Open a Bittorrent client and it will try and port forward port 6881 using UPnP.
You don't even need to do UPnP, if you're okay with a random port, you can just do STUN.
Some cameras do also open ports with UPnP but it's rare in my experience. I think these cams are more users who are a bit technical but not too much to realise the implications.
Yes weak passwords are bad, but if nobody can access it it’s not the end of the world.
It's the swiss cheese model. I'm sure most of these people didn't mean to make their cam accessible to the internet. If there had been a unique username/pw they wouldn't have got exposed.