Watch Security Camera Streams on the Internet

Have you ever wanted to see what was going on on the other side of the world?

With the following information, you can not only see through the eyes of Big Brother, but sometimes you can even zoom, pan, tilt, capture and save images. This is made possible by CCTV cameras that allow people to access cameras from anywhere in the world through the Internet. If the connection isn't password protected, the camera can be accessed by anyone! It's not as sneaky as it seems, though. You'll probably find that most of the footage is intended to be publicly transmitted, but it's still fascinating to peek into various corners of the world from your computer.

Steps

 * 1) Open up your web browser.
 * 2) Go to a search engine of your choice (i.e. Google, Yahoo, etc.), and input any of the search queries listed below.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4) Depending on the type of camera that you have access to, you may be able to zoom, pan, and tilt the camera to see what you want to. 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 disabled by the device's administrator.
 * 5) Do not try to get onto password protected cameras, as this will not go unnoticed if too many attempts are made. Watch for as long as you want. If these companies wanted them secure, they would be.

Search Queries
The list is continuously evolving (this is a wiki, after all) so if you find a query that doesn't work, edit this page and remove it from the list.
 * inurl:/view.shtml
 * intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
 * inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
 * inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
 * inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
 * inurl:view/index.shtml
 * inurl:view/view.shtml
 * liveapplet
 * 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
 * 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″
 * viewnetcam.com
 * intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
 * intitle:”i-Catcher Console - Web Monitor”

Tips

 * You can take a screenshot or use a screen recording program to record the video stream.

Warnings

 * This does not fall within most school's or office's computer use guidelines/restrictions.
 * If you have to break through an existing login system, it's most likely illegal.

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