Catching a wireless camera broadcast

14 Feb 2005 12:49 AM

John ©

If there is an unsecure wireless camera broadcast in your immediate area, is
there a way to detect this signal and view the camera?

Thanks,
John

14 Feb 2005 2:48 AM

bumtracks

Curious : why do you want to know this ?
With so many security and nanny cams around I would hate to think you're
wanting this newsgroup to educate the world how to be a crook or a sicko
pedophile.

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"John ©" <johnjcarbone@nospam.nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> If there is an unsecure wireless camera broadcast in your immediate area,
is
> there a way to detect this signal and view the camera?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>

14 Feb 2005 11:13 PM

John ©

Sorry, I guess you have to have a sicko mind to assume that I had sicko
motives. The reason I asked about this, is because my complex has security
cameras that broadcast the grounds area of where I live. So what I want to
do is log into cameras veiwing public spaces of the area where I live. But
I could see how knowledge of this could be bad in the wrong hands.

Cheers,
John

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> Curious : why do you want to know this ?
> With so many security and nanny cams around I would hate to think you're
> wanting this newsgroup to educate the world how to be a crook or a sicko
> pedophile.
>
> "John ©" <johnjcarbone@nospam.nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:0ASPd.7565$qn2.1449678@twister.nyc.rr.com...
>> If there is an unsecure wireless camera broadcast in your immediate area,
> is
>> there a way to detect this signal and view the camera?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>
>
>

15 Feb 2005 1:46 PM

Tim Haynes

An excellent reason to find out if such cameras exist! You can warn the
management of their security hole.

Tim

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"John ©" <johnjcarbone@nospam.nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry, I guess you have to have a sicko mind to assume that I had sicko
> motives. The reason I asked about this, is because my complex has
security
> cameras that broadcast the grounds area of where I live. So what I want to
> do is log into cameras veiwing public spaces of the area where I live.
But
> I could see how knowledge of this could be bad in the wrong hands.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> "bumtracks" <visi***@corner.bar> wrote in message
> news:%jUPd.20330$uc.7976@trnddc02...
> > Curious : why do you want to know this ?
> > With so many security and nanny cams around I would hate to think you're
> > wanting this newsgroup to educate the world how to be a crook or a sicko
> > pedophile.
> >
> > "John ©" <johnjcarbone@nospam.nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:0ASPd.7565$qn2.1449678@twister.nyc.rr.com...
> >> If there is an unsecure wireless camera broadcast in your immediate
area,
> > is
> >> there a way to detect this signal and view the camera?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

15 Feb 2005 6:24 PM

Kingfish Stevens

Icom makes a radio receiver (handheld with screen) that will do it.
Model IC R3

20 Feb 2005 11:07 PM

D. Stussy

21 Feb 2005 12:25 PM

jeremy

D. Stussy wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Kingfish Stevens wrote:
>
>>Icom makes a radio receiver (handheld with screen) that will do it.
>>Model IC R3
>
>
> That obviously won't work. The R3 picks up NTSC video, not WiFi video.

Try driftnet... will sniff and rebuild jpegs, etc as it sniffs em. also
will play mpegs as it sniffs them. doesn't matter if it's wifi or not,
just need to be able to sniff the traffic and you're set.

HTH http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/

jeremyb4

15 Feb 2005 7:37 PM

William P.N. Smith

"John ©" <johnjcarbone@nospam.nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>The reason I asked about this, is because my complex has security
>cameras that broadcast the grounds area of where I live. So what I want to
>do is log into cameras veiwing public spaces of the area where I live.

It'll really depend on how their system is set up, if it uses WiFi
cameras, if they have security turned on, if they are viewable from
the Internet (*), and other stuff. You're kinda on your own...

(*) At least one model of WiFi camera IME has a password security
hole, but since I own one of them I'm not going to go into details,
and I'd be _real_ surprised if your complex used them anyway...

16 Feb 2005 3:49 PM

harold@hallikainen.com

This reminds me of "the lobby channel" story broadcast on This American
Life (listen to it at http://207.70.82.73/ra/278.ram ). It's the story
of a guy who was tuning around on his VCR (probably one of the old ones
that had analog settings for each channel) and ran across a video
broadcast of a building lobby on his CATV system.

Harold

John © wrote:
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> If there is an unsecure wireless camera broadcast in your immediate
area, is
> there a way to detect this signal and view the camera?
>
> Thanks,
> John