Here’s another interesting unintended use for Google… Evidently many Webcams have a feature that lets you view the feed from anywhere on the Web. Unfortunately, said feeds are completely un-password-protected by default, letting anyone who knows the URL spy on you. No problem; just don’t give out the URL, right?

Wrong. Each camera has a standard script responsible for rendering the feed. If you Google for the name of that script, you get a huge list of unsecured cameras. Just click the link, and see who’s on the other end.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=inurl%3A%22MultiCameraFrame%3FMode%3D%22 http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=inurl%3A%22ViewerFrame%3FMode%3D%22 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=inurl%3A%22view%2Findex.shtml%22&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%22axis-cgi%2Fmjpg%22&btnG=Google

Right now there’s not much to see in North America (too dark/businesses are closed) so I’m watching someone’s goldfish in China, and a coin laundry in Japan.