Ole Cowboy
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Concur and quoted for the truth.I'm going to try not to sound like a jerk on this. Really, I am. What follows is the best I can do.
People who buy IP-based security cams and slap them on the wall without bothering to configure them are idiots who are inviting people to spy on them. There have been indexing sites in existence for years that have thousands of links to live cams. Those lists are compiled by pinging all the IPs in the assigned ranges, trying the default password that shipped with the device (or, in the early days, there may have been no password at all), and then listing anything that responds. Ultimately, it's a pretty boring hobby. You can find a cam that's trained on the front entrance of a home anywhere in the world and stare into another persons life 24 hours a day, if you like. The most likely outcome is that you see them go to work and come home for a total of 30 seconds of movement every 24 hours.
What we have here are dumb hackers who guide dumb voyeurs to dumb webcams set up by dumb owners. All of it is a gigantic bore and it only makes the news when someone wants to sell newspapers by trying to start a new moral panic. A pox on all their houses.
And now we have the "cloud". That is great, take all your ultra private info and load it into the cloud, which is being hosted by some company and protected by their firewalls etc etc. For something safer, take all your bank statements and nekkid pics of your wife and girlfriend and hand them out on a clothes line, less folks will have access...ok maybe not quite that bad but you are getting my point.
I personally do not use the cloud and I was doing cloud computing in my data centers in the late 90's, but I was the schema architect, and it was a TELCO grade and I was able to give 5, 9's SLA.
Before you jump on the cloud you need to look before you leap...