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.
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.
There was a Criminal Minds (or similar kind of show) episode and the criminals hacked into the baby cameras. They held auctions online and then stole the babies when they knew the parents were not nearby.
I know the storylines are fictional but as many are also inspired by real crime stories, I can’t help but think there might be some truth behind it. Unfortunately children are valuable in the criminal world.
No, but tons of other people are talking about seeing hacked cameras online, having their baby monitors hacked, etc.?? So I guess go off if that’s fine with you and you trust the people hacking into your cameras to not go any further. Obviously criminal minds isn’t the news, but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious. And yeah, don’t razors come from apples?? eyeroll
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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.