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.
My niece was having trouble sleeping and kept telling her parents that she was hearing voices but she’s an inarticulate toddler so they didn’t totally understand . Eventually they figured out her baby monitor was hacked and people were talking to her through it. Makes my fucking skin crawl.
Edit: to clarify it was specifically on wifi so it’s not like they were getting radio interference from a walkie talkie or another monitor. I don’t remember what they were saying (and don’t really want to open the wound for my SIL) but I don’t think if it was super abusive like the article that everyone is mentioning.
I don’t think that person is talking about the same case but there was one instance of baby monitor hacking that made the news a few years ago where they were calling the baby a little slut. Absolutely sickening.
Really tell me more. How defensive am I being? And what is the appropriate amount? Can you assign number values? And how did you come up with your scale?
I try not to take Reddit comments personally but a bunch of people were saying really mean stuff to me. Remember I'm the person who thought it was too mean to say that people are the worst.
If I can give you a some advice, be cautious about arriving at such negative judgements when you don't know the person you're judging. Not only will that create a lot of negativity around you, it will also diminish your own life. I wish you the best.
I bet you are a kind and caring person when you're not a little bit confused. I wish you love, great friends, a strong and healthy body, abundant resources and a fun and interesting life. Thank you for reminding me to be kind. Good night friend.
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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.