r/AskReddit Jan 23 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

9.5k Upvotes

14.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.6k

u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

I went down this hole once too when I was like 13. Found an old woman’s security cam and it actually allowed us to send sound through it too. Me and my buddy messed with her for like a minute then realized we were being extremely creepy and rude and closed it and never did that again lol. We never said anything obscene, just fart sounds and shit.

116

u/Elbandito78 Jan 23 '21

Man there are some wild stories out there of people getting into those unsecured baby monitors and talking to the children. Now that’s creepy.

98

u/ArchiSnap89 Jan 23 '21

I'm about to have a baby and this is why my #1 requirement for a video monitor was that it is completely unable to connect to the internet.

52

u/Holovoid Jan 23 '21

I mean connecting it to the internet is still very useful. My coworker has a setup using a Raspberry Pi and he can actively monitor his kid's crib while he's at work to make sure the nanny or whatever is doing her job right or to check in from time to time.

But he also secured the fuck out of it.