IP Crawl is a browseable library of camera systems exposed to the internet. Currently on the favorites list are a swimming pool in Austin, Texas, a boxing ring in New York City, and a marijuana farm in Droitwich, England. If the majority of feeds show private places and suggest operator ignorance or misfortune (you can check your own location for exposed cameras), there are some lovely exteriors such as this view of Lausanne in Switzerland.
A living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet — browse, filter and watch them live from the edge.
You can filter feeds by location, ISP, camera brand and other things. Though many of the exposures have no great potential for harm, many do, and the site is clearly a lesson for everyone about the wrong assumptions we have regarding who technology serves. Criminals and governments don't need IP Crawl to find these feeds.
The site is the work of Alec Armbruster, a computer programmer and security researcher. He recently wrote about the open webcam crisis.
A shocking number of major manufacturers engineer and ship webcams that are completely insecure by default. Hikvision, Blue Iris, Axis, D-Link, Wyze, Dahua, Sony… the list goes on. Shipping hardware this vulnerable directly violates customer privacy and creates a massive security liability.
According to the stats page, the site tracks 13,821 camera feeds, 2,730 of which are currently live, in 119 countries, across 2,180 service providers.
If a camera listed here belongs to you and you'd like it removed, take it off the public internet by securing it or disconnecting it. Once the feed is no longer publicly accessible, it will automatically disappear from IP Crawl during the next scan cycle. This project surfaces what is already extremely public and tries to be a responsible neighbor about it. IP addresses are never published. Additionally, we have an image classification pipeline in place that makes a best attempt to automatically hide feeds that: are not cameras, contain CSAM, contain nudity, are suspected to be fake or honeypots
