IP Crawl: Exposing the Open Webcam Crisis

We have a serious problem.

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.

But instead of fixing the issue, manufacturers look the other way. And instead of stepping in to protect citizens, governments do nothing. Risking the label of a conspiracy theorist, it’s starting to look less like negligence and more like a legally sanctioned backdoor for mass surveillance.