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Reminds me: The days before 9/11 I played with some webcams that let you pan and zoom a cam and take turns if others were using it. There was one on the Empire State because I used it that day... There may have been one on a wtc tower, and I may have tried it too... Already down? Can't remember that well. Anyone else remember that? Or that type of webcam? Later on they got better, but have not looked into them any while. (I'll need to look into it.)


I remember using those when I was just a kid! I'm pretty sure that there was some sort of search term or operator that I used to find them through Google.

I used to have a huge list bookmarked, and they weren't just on famous landmarks. It was actually kind of creepy because some were located in offices, small businesses,etc.

One time a friend and I constantly rotated one of the office cameras until a guy got up from his desk and covered the lens with a piece of paper. I'm guessing that the owners didn't realize that they were accessible by anyone with an Internet connection...


I recall doing the same as a kid (and as a young adult). The one I remember searching for were the Axis network cameras:

inurl:/view.shtml [1]

and

intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^ [2]

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:/view.shtml

[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22Live+View+%2F+-+...




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