Finding these cameras via a search engine highlights a major privacy and security risk. Many of these devices were installed with (e.g., username root and password pass ) or with no password at all.
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: Search engines like Google, Censys, or Shodan continuously crawl the web and index these interfaces if they are not explicitly protected by a robots.txt file or password authentication. Security Risks Finding these cameras via a search engine highlights