It's creepier than you think, currently the first feed you gave they are in bed and the guy is playing on what look like a Nintendo 3DS and he is naked...
Ah of course, I thought it was truncated. Using my German to translate Dutch, not always successful :) Love the similarities, "Kammer" means "compartment" or "small room" in German.
tldr: I wrote a JavaScript "virus" for our school's (unofficial) message board. I was banned for years. In a thread about that webcam, I made the above facetious apology.
Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury.
While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account.
It says ANLEMC-Titan. Googling for ANLEMC reveals it has to do with telepresence microscopy. That leads me to believe that machine may be a FEI Company Titan electron microscope:
The popularity of snooping on other people's lives will never cease to amaze me. Some of the sentiment in this thread is what has powered ww.com for 15 years now, and I still don't get it.
Most of these cameras appear to have been set up for an organization to look at itself, or for customers to look at their own stuff. I haven't come across any that appear to have been set up with creepy creeper intent.
Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that.
Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.
Well, my ability to differentiate the two is admittedly rather limited (though I hope more accurate than a coin flip), so you might be right. On the other hand, it could've been a different movie by the time you saw it.
Taiwanese -> Complicated Letters
Chinese -> Less complicated letters
Japanese -> Rounder letters.
Just a rule of thumb. The modern chinese letters are a simplified version of those taiwan still uses, and describe entire words. Whilst Chinese is looks more stroked, Japanese looks a little more organic, even though yes, unless you know either of them, they're still hard to differentiate.
Wow, this is both terrifying and fascinating. The FAQ mentioned viewing these is a legal grey area. Anybody know about the legality of this in the United States?
It seems a lot of these places have webcams. I guess it makes sense, if there's a dogfight or a dog attacks a trainer you'd want some video evidence of it.
Gosh I remember walking around my college campus one day and coming across some random computer cluster in the CS building, hopped onto one of the machines (that said "Sun Microsystems" embossed somewhere one it), proceeding to be utterly confused by the KDE applications and interface. (I was purely a Win user back then)
I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos.
EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.
I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
Indeed, but I think we have to realize that not all these open cameras are security failings. Some universities and towns just have open cameras so that curious people can watch. I know that Purdue had one near where the band would practice marching so that parents could see the band more frequently.
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This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds: http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-we...
Thankfully the camera's very pixelated.
I wonder if it's on purpose?
Longer version: premium users of The Wolf Web were granted full html/javascript abilities. I probably never would have bothered to become premium, except every year the site hosted an Egg Hunt, which involves staying online as long as you can during a 24 hour period to claim "eggs" that are randomly assigned to you. The person who gets the most eggs wins premium status for a year. Two friends and I decided to win the competition by working in shifts and we indeed won. The fact that there were veteran users, some with over 50k posts, and we won with a new alias just added insult to injury.
While playing around with my newfound html abilities, I realized that I could write an auto-submitting form; I decided to write a virus. It was totally ugly; for technical reasons related to the payload, I wrote the entire thing on one line, used the shortest variable names possible, and it was pretty much untested. The way it worked is, when a premium user clicked on a thread with the payload, they would automatically submit a new thread with the payload included. I'm still proud of one feature: it would pull recent thread titles, so they would appear to be legitimate threads that had been bumped. I call it a virus, but it didn't do much besides spread for a few days before they disabled it. Anyway, all of my accounts were promptly banned. Somehow, I used some social engineering to convince an admin who had been away to unban me. It worked, but I never used the account.
Scheming, virus writing, social engineering. Definitely one of my finer moments. I documented some of the events here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.511920914339.213059...
Edit: some other findings
Mouses : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447
Stange machine (any idea what it is?) : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900
http://www.fei.com/products/transmission-electron-microscope...
WTF.
Edit: also, weird building in NL - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18641
(http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/12/how_to_negate_...)
Here's a Stackoverflow question from someone who is expected to OCR the webcam so they can programatically use the securid token (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1983879/ocr-an-rsa-key-fo...)
And here's a really nice write up, with perl, about OCRing securid tokens. (http://perlmeister.com/lme/prod-0706.pdf)
(http://www.staton.us/electronics/web_cam_otp/index.html)
I saw the link you posted. I laughed! it was funny. Then I searched, and a whole bunch of people do it.
Looks like a model train set: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7779
Yeah, that's good security right there.
MOAR:
Dead bird?? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7972
I'm not complaining though :)
Yet the aggregate effect of all these inexpensive cameras is categorically different than that of any single camera alone. Today these are crappy lo-res cameras, but as bandwidth costs decrease these will become supplanted by high res cameras that can count the pores on your skin and recognition systems that do just that.
Welcome to the future, courtesy of those who are not complaining.
A large sharktank in sweden
Ironic
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=mullard+radio+observatory...
Still being used as part of the UK synthetic aperture radio telescope IIRC, along with Jodrell bank and a few other sites dotted around the UK.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899
I'm now typing this post from an Ubuntu box that I built last week. I guess I've progressed a little bit ;)
I've always wondered who controlled that camera.
That rack was used for the development of the Rocks Cluster system back in its heyday. Rocks creator, Phil Papadopoulos, is the brother of former Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos.
EDIT: Someone panned the camera to the other side of the room. Pardon the cable spaghetti - that rack is temporary.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40