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Cryptogasm
cryptogasm.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2012
Cryptogasm is a security-minded developer's site that hosted a viewer for exposed webcams and posted about vulnerable cameras and Heartbleed detection bugs.
What HN saysHN links it mainly for its exposed webcam viewer, which commenters browsed for odd and private camera feeds before it was taken down.
50HN people shared it
45linked it in comments
5stories submitted
179story points
13 years agolast shared
2012people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Exposed Webcam Viewer3 people · 170 points · first shared 2013 · 110 comments on HN
- 2Webcam2 people · first shared 2013
- 3Webcam2 people · first shared 2013
- 4Exposed Webcam Viewer1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 5What’s Worse than Heartbleed? Bugs in Heartbleed Detection Scripts1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Public Webcam Viewer1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Cryptgasm.com: Exposed Webcam Viewer Removal1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 9Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 10Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 11Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 12City%3A%22San Francisco%221 people · first shared 2013
- 13Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 14Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
- 15Webcam1 people · first shared 2013
What HN people wrote when they linked it
darsham · 2013-05-24
you're probably thinking about this (which now 404s):
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/
Don't know why it was taken down. Here is the old thread :
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543465
which mentions the Content-Type "multipart/x-mixed-replace" technique used to constantly update jpegs in the browser.
alex_doom · 2013-04-15
Someone's house ... or porn set http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=2600
cuppy · 2013-04-14
Child labor in vietnam? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20200
leot · 2013-04-14
This is beautiful: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=19292
Ironic/meta: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34942
hello_newman · 2013-04-14
This is cool, but really creepy at the same time. I guess some people don't really consider the ramifications of putting a webcam online.
Side note, a horse and her baby! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7392
aleksandrm · 2013-04-14
Anyone know what this might be? Looks like some kind of boats in a pond with solar panels in them?
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11
wingspan · 2013-04-14
Looks like Windows 98 fed directly into a cam: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27279
wluu · 2013-04-14
Network rack, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=3070
Chickens, South Korea - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=33410
It's kinda weird, I'm just pressing "random" and seeing what comes up.
There seems to be more than a few that are "street" views, which gives you view of certain cities. So that's kinda interesting.
knassy · 2013-04-14
Gun shop in France http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4432
bbayer · 2013-04-14
that was the interesting one I have seen.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=82
duck · 2013-04-14
Someone keeping an eye on their cars: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=841
draftable · 2013-04-14
Im cancelling my sports package now:
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3AAlbacete
Ecio78 · 2013-04-14
Remote sensing..
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=7283
gzur · 2013-04-13
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=5345
Guy on facebook watching TV
mkosler · 2013-04-13
I think I saw a shark in this one: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=24248
Looks like a model train set: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=18939
georgemcbay · 2013-04-13
Sun Microsystems still representing at UCSD:
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=34899
dubfan · 2013-04-13
I'm not sure how it does the geolocation but it doesn't seem to be terribly accurate in every case. I've seen cameras that claim to be located in inland locations that are on beaches (like http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=11495 which the site says is in a Seattle suburb but is actually on the Oregon coast)
mediocregopher · 2013-04-13
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=181
A large sharktank in sweden
fla · 2013-04-13
Rack monitoring http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=37156
Edit: some other findings
Mouses : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36548
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36447
Stange machine (any idea what it is?) : http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36900
anewaccount · 2013-04-13
Eeep. A day care: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22Key%20West%22
PebblesRox · 2013-04-13
Here's a nice relaxing swimming pool: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36877
draugadrotten · 2013-04-13
Moscow living room & closet - http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36796
zwegner · 2013-04-13
I guess this one is playing a joke on us? It's a feed of what looks like some old Japanese movie: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=27115
jeroen94704 · 2013-04-13
These people are currently (19:40 CET) having dinner: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22813
Linkd · 2013-04-13
Oh wow..
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=36767 This one is from what looks like someones living room a few minutes away from me. Where are these precise coordinates coming from?
tkahn6 · 2013-04-13
This is Virginia Tech... not Haymarket, Virginia.
http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=40
DouweM · 2013-04-13
They're not the only ones: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697
And their living room where they're currently watching TV: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692
Damn, this is creepy.
lvs · 2013-04-13
Unhealthy Food Observatory in the other Cambridge: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22785
kintamanimatt · 2013-04-13
One person has an exposed webcam in what appears to be their bedroom! http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/index.php?q=city%3A%22San+Francisco%22
ed56 · 2013-04-13
There's a spider in front of this one. http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=22466