I wanted to warn and help people who unwittingly opened a digital window to view into their homes, so I tried to track down some security camera owners with the hopes of helping them change the default username and password. Like the site said, you can see into “bedrooms of all countries of the world.” There are 256 countries listed plus one directory not sorted into country categories. 2,268 in the Netherlands 2,220 in Colombia and 1,970 in India. There are 40,746 pages of unsecured cameras just in the first 10 country listings: 11,046 in the U.S. But that requires knowing the site exists. According to FAQs, people who choose not to secure their cameras can write the site administrator and ask for the URL to be removed. Change the defaults to secure the camera to make it private and it disappears from the index.

Truthfully, I was torn about linking to the site, which claims to be “designed in order to show the importance of security settings ” the purpose of the site is supposedly to show how not changing the default password means that the security surveillance system is “available for all Internet users” to view. 1 for unsecured security cameras: Creepy site linked to over 5,700 in U.S. locations, more than any other country one link could have up to 8 or 16 channels, meaning that’s how many different security camera views were displayed on one page. The site, with an IP address from Russia, is further broken down into insecure security cameras by the manufacturers Foscam, Linksys, Panasonic, some listed only as “IP cameras,” as well as AvTech and Hikvision DVRs. Yesterday I stumbled onto a site indexing 73,011 locations with unsecured security cameras in 256 countries …unsecured as in “secured” with default usernames and passwords.

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