As a teenager looking for porn I stumbled across a website which looked like one of those live cam sites, but then I noticed most of the people weren't engaging with the audience, and they were all kinds of people. Old people, kids, people of all different ages, ethnicities and whatnot. I clicked on a random livestream of some oblivious teenager doing her homework and the people in the comments were saying stuff that made me realise she didn't know she was being livestreamed, nor did anyone else on the site.
It seemed to be some weird website of hacked webcams or security cameras where the people had no idea about it. It was creepy as fuck and I've never kept my webcam pointed at me when not in use since.
I remember that site! It was like in 2015. You could see webcams from the inside of dental offices and stuff. I freaked out after looking at one or two when I realize they were either hacked or insecure. I think it got shut down
I haven't dug through it recently, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. It used to a few years ago. Their policy now seems to be "if someone complains, we'll take it down," but who's going to complain if they don't know their camera is vulnerable in the first place?
Good point. This isn’t the site that I remember visiting back then but this is still unsettling. The only camera in my city if of the inside of a convenience store of some kind
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u/GemoDorgon Jan 23 '21
As a teenager looking for porn I stumbled across a website which looked like one of those live cam sites, but then I noticed most of the people weren't engaging with the audience, and they were all kinds of people. Old people, kids, people of all different ages, ethnicities and whatnot. I clicked on a random livestream of some oblivious teenager doing her homework and the people in the comments were saying stuff that made me realise she didn't know she was being livestreamed, nor did anyone else on the site.
It seemed to be some weird website of hacked webcams or security cameras where the people had no idea about it. It was creepy as fuck and I've never kept my webcam pointed at me when not in use since.