- how to search for cameras (including vulnerable cameras)
- how to save streams from cameras
- how to analyze video
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You can search for cameras using Google Custom Search Engine, which brings together the ten largest aggregators of camera streams (Webcamtaxi, Insecam, Geocam etc).
A huge number of cameras are not available online directly, but they can be vulnerable to hacking using standard schemes (the simplest ex. is using a default password and login).
One way to find such cameras is to use special Google Dorks.
It is also worth mentioning the possibility of searching for vulnerable surveillance cameras with Shodan ("hacker" search engine). Hundreds of articles have been written on this topic. Here is one of them:
The main drawback of CCTV cameras is that most of them are only available in real time.
But if you are lucky, you can find archives of recordings on YouTube (when searching, you need to add the exact date or just the month and year to the name of the city)
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Also, if you want to find archival records, it's worth looking at small town sites/neighborhood sites. Cameras from there often do not show up in the global aggregators + there is sometimes a history of recordings.
(+ you can requests webcam videos by email)
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There are many tools for downloading webcam streams (including currently active ones) from YouTube.
For example, a simple #Python script "YouTube Screen Capture", which allows you to download a stream in pieces and then merge them.
And this #python tool allows you to download streams not only from YouTube, but from a variety of sites. It is more complex and supports dozens of settings.
If you are analyzing footage from cameras that are posted on YouTube, the same tools that are used for #osint other YouTube videos (like FrameByFrame etc) are useful. There's a separate thread about them:
Every year the images on the CCTV cameras are getting better and in 2022 you can find images of faces on the video, which will be useful in further investigations. There's a thread about that, too.
Very often it happens that researching webcams does not allow you to gather enough information about certain place on a certain date. But there are many other ways to get video and photos by geolocation! Read more in the thread:
If you activate Traffic mode on Bing maps, you can see traffic cameras available in real time. In some countries (e.g. USA) they are literally on every corner!
A repository with text files containing a million dorks for finding potentially vulnerable web pages and sensitive data (in Google and other search engines).
- search engines
- AI image editing tools to enhance the quality of search results
- how to reverse face image search without photos
- quick face search on video
- protect yourself
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#osint #socmint
When searching on Google, use not only Lens, but also the OLD image search (which gives very different results). You can access it using this tool:
A very good tool for searching for faces and images in general, which is often more effective than Google. It also recognises text in images and translates it.
Is it possible to use neural networks to create a whole series of photos of one person for a fake social network profile ("sock puppet")?
I show by examples the possible way of solving the problem (this is not an easy way ).
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In order to successfully pretend to be another person on the Internet, you need a series of photos in different places and different clothes. But it's a lot of work to make these (even with AI).
But often this leads to poor quality results. But for some situations it is quite good.
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