A recent study by the company security Protection1 revealed that there are over 6.000 open access security cameras, without even a code, throughout their territory USA.
According to the company's findings, most of these cameras are in public places, but there are cameras at the headquarters of private companies, even in the homes of many Americans.
Protection1 notes that the highest concentration of unprotected cameras is around large urban centers such as the San Francisco Bay area, the Los Angeles area, Seattle, Chicago, the cities of Florida, and across the Atlantic coast, from Washington to Boston.
Beyond the cameras they offer for free open access steaming with view to the public places, there are cameras that have been installed in homes and publicly relay the activities inside the house. These cameras are extremely dangerous for the safety of the occupants of these homes as a non-password camera is a keyhole for the thieves.
The funny thing is that the owners of these homes and businesses have installed the cameras as a surveillance system in order to prevent thieves from a robbery. But the same cameras offer thieves the perfect system for monitoring the premises and collecting information about when and how many people are inside the house, if there is a dog, what are cameras, what are their "dead" points, etc etc.
And if you laugh at the Americans believing they are easy and naive, let us remind you that there are also several cameras in Greece without a code or their worksite code. See the relevant article I'm here.