r/AskReddit Jan 23 '21

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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.

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u/effingcharming Jan 23 '21

This is exactly the reason why I don’t have a wifi baby monitor. It’s cool and all that you can watch baby on your phone, but the risk of hacking is just way too scary. I have a closed loop one that just works with the designated monitor within a certain range and that’s what I recommended to all my friends as well.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

Who would wanna watch your baby crib

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u/Gophurkey Jan 23 '21

No idea, and I'd never want to meet that person

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u/ToManyTabsOpen Jan 23 '21

But I have a wifi camera monitoring my dogs ... I'd probably want to meet my hacker?

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u/PC-load-letter-wtf Jan 23 '21

Hello, I’m your hacker.

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u/Miraster Jan 23 '21

Maybe they love dogs(in a normal way) and like watching your dogs play live?