Poorly secured surveillance camera: a Russian site broadcasts images from nearly 1,000 French cameras

Internet-connected surveillance cameras are on the rise, as are connected objects for home automation. But in this new market of promises of enhanced security by allowing you to monitor and control your home remotely, device security is still so little considered that many of these devices are completely open and accessible on the internet without a word. outmoded.

The Russian site Insecam, which presents itself as "the world's largest directory of online surveillance cameras" therefore offers you in a few clicks to watch the images captured by one of the 931 unsecured cameras listed in France.

Devices from 121 countries around the world can be consulted on the site. The search can be carried out not only according to the country but also according to the type of places monitored.

Var Matin notes that even if the census is not in itself illegal, it quickly becomes shocking when one finds oneself “on a screen interposed in the intensive care unit of a large French hospital or in the bedroom of an inhabitant of the city of Holland, United States”.

The daily, which investigated this platform, questioned Chief Warrant Officer Jean-Luc Ori of N-Tech who confirms the legality of such a platform “Platforms of this type are content to reference what people themselves even make free access on the Internet. However, referencing is not illegal in itself.”

And to conclude with a message addressed to French citizens using a relatively telling comparison “People must realize that they are now evolving in an increasingly digital universe… And that they are learning to close their doors and their windows like they do in the real world.”

So if you have this type of connected device, make sure it is effectively protected.