: Accessing private webcams without permission can be an invasion of privacy. Many of these "open" links exist because owners haven't set a password or have used default credentials. Security Risk

While Google limits how deeply it indexes live video, (the IoT search engine) specializes in finding these exact devices. A search on Shodan for "view/index.shtml" returns thousands of cameras worldwide, often including their geolocation coordinates.

In cybersecurity circles, we call these "Shodan refugees." Shodan is a search engine for IoT devices. People who can't navigate Shodan migrate to Google with queries like this to find: