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I really shouldn't, but this is too good to pass up!

I just got a security alert - which I probably shouldn't talk about, but this is WAY to good to pass up - I hope everybody tries this ... it's CRAZY!!!

Here's the alert:
--Google Search Leads to Security Webcams
(5 January 2005)
A simple, well-crafted Google search can provide access to numerous
security webcams, many of which are presumed private. Webmasters should
keep the webcam pages password protected and use the robots.txt file to
instruct Google and other search engines indicating that the directory
should not be spidered.
Here's an article

And so I checked it out, and here's all you have to do:
Type this into GOOGLE: inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="
And you'll get results of THOUSANDS of security cameras.
Not all of them work any more, I guess people are starting to catch on that their cameras are online... but if you flip though the pages, it'll take maybe ten or twelve tries, and you'll hit a camera that's working... it's not just the ability to watch live streaming colour video of say, some mall, but you can actuall pan the camera, tilt it, follow people, zoom - it's CRAZY!!!!