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    Cryptogasm

    cryptogasm.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012

    Cryptogasm is a security-minded developer's site that hosted a viewer for exposed webcams and posted about vulnerable cameras and Heartbleed detection bugs.

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    What HN says

    HN links it mainly for its exposed webcam viewer, which commenters browsed for odd and private camera feeds before it was taken down.

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    50HN people shared it
    5linked in comments
    179story points
    May 2013last shared

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Exposed Webcam Viewer
      3 people · 170 points · first shared 2013 · 110 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Exposed Webcam Viewer
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
    3. 3
      What’s Worse than Heartbleed? Bugs in Heartbleed Detection Scripts
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2014 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Public Webcam Viewer
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Cryptgasm.com: Exposed Webcam Viewer Removal
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2013 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Webcam
      2 people · first shared 2013
    7. 7
      Webcam
      2 people · first shared 2013
    8. 8
      Webcam
      1 person · first shared 2013
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      Webcam
      1 person · first shared 2013
    10. 10
      Webcam
      1 person · first shared 2013

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • wluuApr 2013

      Network rack, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070

      Chickens, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410

      It's kinda weird, I'm just pressing "random" and seeing what comes up.

      There seems to be more than a few that are "street" views, which gives you view of certain cities. So that's kinda interesting.

    • flaApr 2013

      Rack monitoring http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156

      Edit: some other findings

      Mouses : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548

      Caltech Submillimeter Observatory: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447

      Stange machine (any idea what it is?) : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900

    • dubfanApr 2013

      I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)

    • cdrxndrApr 2013

      Assuming this guy wasn't naked when you posted this ... but he is now.

      This floated around on the interwebs a while ago - part of a vulnerability study that was posted to the blog detailing the approach for generating the set of camera feeds:
      http://cryptogasm.com/2012/02/list-of-vulnerable-trendnet-webcams/

    • darshamMay 2013

      you're probably thinking about this (which now 404s):
      http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/

      Don't know why it was taken down. Here is the old thread :
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543465

      which mentions the Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace" technique used to constantly update jpegs in the browser.

    • hello_newmanApr 2013

      This is cool, but really creepy at the same time. I guess some people don't really consider the ramifications of putting a webcam online.

      Side note, a horse and her baby! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392

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