Axis Communications, is the maker of a wide variety of security cameras that can be connected to the Internet for remote viewing. Their products are excellent as they provide clear quality video streams that runs relatively fast. The purpose of the cameras can be used for security purposes, to all sorts of monitoring. From security your house perimeter, watching the nanny for abuse, monitoring business activities and a lot more.

One problem though is that maybe not only the owner may be the viewer of the webcam, but maybe a lot more. This can be a problem with security where a potential robber can monitor in real time when would be the best time to rob a house or business. Or this camera can be used for voyeurism purposes by unsuspected viewers.

Having a webcam stream online thinking that only you know the URL, even if it is some IP address that barely no one can memorize, this can still be searched.

Owners of Axis Communications’ webcams oftenly can publish online their streaming webcam page and will have a default URL pattern similar to as follows:

http://www.domain-or-ip-address.com/path/view/index.shtml

Knowing this, a search command can be done in Google called inurl. You can search the following in Google:

inurl:/view/index.shtml

And you will be surprised with the amount of webcams that are open to the public. Many of the results will show you outdoor public webcams of traffic, parks, universities and construction sites. But there are a few that are actual indoor rooms and offices. Here are a few I have found:

• Webcam of some office
• Webcam in some office or library
• Webcam, close up of someone’s room
• Webcam of some production line of manual labor
• Webcam of City Hall Conference room
• Webcam on top of building, but this gave me control. I was able to tilt, pan and zoom into windows of nearby buildings. After using it for a few minutes, there was also another user online controlling the camera and the commands of camera control were a first come first serve control. And I was battling it out for a while as the other person kept focusing on the sidewalks of the streets as I tried to focus on the other building windows.
• Webcam of a hotel lobby
• Webcam of a restaurant
• This also looks like a restaurant webcam
• Another top of building webcam that can zoom in clearer to building windows

This list can go endless as Google gave me 10,400 results. With the domain and IP, you can narrow down the location up to some point.