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Do you like to watch live webcams of people and pets going about their daily lives? These sites give you everything you could want, offering access to live feeds and even sometimes the ability to interact with the subjects or their surroundings.

Easy to stumble onto adult content.

With a slogan of The private life of other people live 24/7 , you know exactly what you're getting with this webcam site.

Before you visit this site, be aware that some of the live feeds are NSFW. You'll need a paid membership to access them, but there are thumbnails of previous feeds that give you a very good idea of what you'll see.

You can select the apartments of several different people who have live webcams set up. Choose free views of different rooms or opt to pay for a premium option to see cams in other rooms, activate motion detection, auto-follow the top live cams, and more.

This live webcam site gives you a map of their apartment to be able to choose what views you want. Be as much of a voyeur as you wish—as much as they let you see (and you can see a lot).

See a peaceful garden in a South Florida home. There isn't much to this free webcam but you do you have a bit more control than the at-home webcam feeds from above.

The Garden Bubble Cam lets you liven things up by clicking the Bubbles button to activates 30 seconds of bubble-making.

You can control lights and even a disco ball in this room in Denison, Texas. Something else unique about this live webcam feed is that you can send a message to the LED board... and you might even get a reply from another viewer!

Feedback is shown in real-time with this webcam. There are links to a couple of other cameras on this website, too, located in Greenville Michigan.

It's home away from home for several astronauts. You can watch them live when the crew is on duty. When they aren't, you'll see the view of Earth.

You can listen in to conversations between the crew and Mission Control.

What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas. You can watch happy (or simply inebriated) couples tie the knot at Elvis-themed weddings, complete with the King himself making an appearance.

There are volume controls and you can pan and zoom digitally to get a better view, which you might need because this webcam feed is usually poor quality.

Can't filter for just on air webcams.

If you like watching birds nesting, this site should make you very happy. Here you can find cams set up to view a whole array of nesting bird species from around the world.

From penguins in Antarctica to bald eagles in Washington, D.C., there are lots to pick from, so if one nest is empty, try another. Although it might not be nesting season in one part of the world, it always is somewhere else.

Live cams have been set up in Scotland at Loch Ness so that you can watch 24/7 for the legendary plesiosaur-like beastie—or just some sheep that graze nearby.

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The news: How would you feel if you found out a live stream of your bedroom had been airing online for weeks?
The website Insecam is doing just that, streaming footage from approximately 73,000 Internet-connected IP cameras around the world. The majority appear to be from cameras running default security settings (like using "admin1" or "password" as a password).
In just a few minutes of browsing, users can find live footage from locations as varied as stores, parking lots and the interiors of countless private residences. One particularly unsettling feed appeared to be aimed at a bed.
What's going on here? IP cameras differ from closed-circuit television (CCTV) models because they stream footage directly onto a network without having to connect to a recording device or control network. They offer major advantages over older technology, including the ability to record multiple feeds at the same time and at much higher resolution. Many are streamed over the Internet for the convenience of buyers. Ars Technica's Tom Connor explained the problem in 2011 :
The central system monitoring the feeds might be secure, but often the cameras are not — either because they don't support passwords or because the user neglected to change the default one. This means that remote viewing pages set up by the cameras are essentially open game to anyone who knows enough about search engines to find them.
Insecam seems to be using similar techniques to aggregate as many of these cams together as possible. While some are obviously meant to be publicly available, others appear to have been illegally accessed — as admitted on the website's homepage, which says it has "been designed to show the importance of the security settings." But from the ads littering the homepage, it may just be an opportunity to profit off of voyeurism.
Isn't this illegal? In the case of the cameras accessed using default passwords, of course. Attorney Jay Leiderman told Motherboard that Insecam "is a stunningly clear violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)," even if it is intended as a PSA. "You put a password on a computer to keep it private, even if that password is just '1.' It's entry into a protected computer."
But who's going to stop it? Gawker reports the domain name appeared to be registered through GoDaddy to an IP address in Moscow, meaning they're unlikely to be tracked down. Meanwhile, the alleged anonymous administrator of the site insisted to Motherboard that the scale of the problem warranted dramatic action — and that an "automated" process was adding thousands more each week.
Hopefully, authorities will take action to bring Insecam down. But in the meantime, this should be a reminder that password security is no joke.

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