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You might be live streaming from your living room and have no idea

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Published 16:46 18 Jul 2025 GMT+1

You might be live streaming from your living room and have no idea

There is a website that broadcasts live feeds

Rikki Loftus

Rikki Loftus

Featured Image Credit: YouTube/@christophe
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One man is alerting the public to a terrifying possibility that you could be live streaming to the world from your living room and have no idea about it.

This is because of a website that broadcasts live feeds that aren’t password protected, with some being security cameras located inside homes.

Known online as Christophe, the YouTuber decided to dig into the matter himself, writing in the video description: “Insecam is a strange corner of the internet. It’s a site that compiles live feeds from IP cameras — internet-connected devices often used for security — that aren’t protected with a password.

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“The site’s creator states that any cameras that invade someone’s private life are removed. But the end result is still an eerie platform for peeking into life in real-time around the world.

“I set out to try to identify where one of these cameras was streaming from, and help its owner take it offline.”

While a lot of the footage is from public areas including beaches, tennis courts and street CCTV cameras, others display private homes such as the driveway, a balcony and even inside living rooms.

In the YouTube video, Christophe said: “A site like Insecam does this kind of scan continuously and it does it for multiple different internet protocols to catch multiple different kinds of IP cameras.

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“This, Insecam's FAQ section argues, isn't hacking because it's accessing something that doesn't have password protection in the first place, less like breaking into a house and more like peeping into windows that were already open.”

He continued: “Reddit was full of posts from people trying to identify via crowdsourcing where a camera on Insecam was located so that they could help its owners take it offline.

“Redditors had helped to take down cameras at a restaurant in Norfolk, Virginia, where you could see customers posing in front of an aquarium, a bar in Victoria, Canada, where you could watch staff on break, even a pub in Dublin, Ireland, where you could read people's pin numbers

at the cash register.”

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One man is alerting the public to a terrifying possibility that you could be live streaming to the world from your living room (YouTube/@christophe)
One man is alerting the public to a terrifying possibility that you could be live streaming to the world from your living room (YouTube/@christophe)

The YouTuber added: “The site claims to be about raising awareness, but unless you know about Insecam and spend the time to find your camera on there, or you have a friend or a well-meaning stranger who does that for you, you might never know that your camera is public.”

Many viewers were shocked by the footage, with many taking to the comment section to share their reactions.

One user wrote: “It's ironic when people need to apply cameras on their house to feel safe but actually makes them more vulnerable.”

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And another added: “People are the weakest link in security. I work in cybersecurity, and I am always amazed on how many open cameras there are and how many people have them in their house, bedrooms, etc.”

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