At two o'clock in the morning, in the baby room, the two-year-old child suddenly began to cry.
The young mother tried to coax him, but heard the voice of a strange man in the empty room.
"Shhh..."
It's not a horror movie, it's something that really happened some time ago in Scotland.
Mr. and Mrs. Cummings' son, Aiden, is two years old and has his own bedroom and does not live with his parents at night.
But Claire, the mother, found that for the past month, her son Aiden had woken up screaming in horror at two o'clock in the morning.
At first, Claire, the mother, always thought that this was her son's nightmare and did not pay attention to it.
But gradually, they realized that something was wrong.
It wasn't a day or two, but a whole week: every night Aiden cried, as if frightened by something.
It was even so serious that he began to behave strangely, resisting and fearing his bedroom.
When his parents tried to bring him back to the room, he would start screaming.
But the child's parents checked the room and found nothing noteworthy – the camera in the room, nor did they capture any 'haunted' footage.
However, what they did not expect was that in fact, what was really 'haunted' was the camera itself...
Aiden's behavior became more and more obvious, and he would scream and point at the camera, trying to escape the room in great fear.
One night, the mother lying in bed was confused and heard a "boo" sound from the children's room, and thought she was dreaming.
However, a few days later, when she was woken up again by Aiden's screams, she went into the children's room and actually heard the voice of a strange man.
The frightening sound emanated from inside the camera, and son Aiden was so frightened that he began to scream.
Mom immediately unpluged the power from the camera...
Sure enough, the problem was solved.
In the weeks that followed, Aiden didn't wake up screaming every night or be afraid of his bedroom.
Although this matter was resolved, it still made the parents feel very guilty.
They installed cameras, originally for the safety of their children, so that they could see if anything unexpected had happened to their children.
However, this has also become a channel for strangers to rape and intimidate children.
"We were all scared because we kept changing his clothes in the room. We don't know exactly what the freak behind this camera saw. ”
"The thought of someone looking at him behind a camera scares us..."
Nowadays, home cameras are becoming more and more common.
If you have children or pets at home, or for anti-theft and other purposes, many people will choose to buy a camera to connect their mobile phones.
Most cameras are set by default to "multiple phones can be connected at the same time", so that every member of the family can see the picture.
However, this also gives cracking hackers an opportunity.
According to the Daily Mail, there are 3.5 million connected cameras in the UK that are at risk of being hacked, and almost any camera without special security settings can be easily cracked.
Hackers carpet search the web for insecure cameras: the ones that buy and never change their passwords and can be cracked in seconds.
Then, these cameras installed by the head of the household become a "resource".
Your life will be broadcast live 24 hours a day.
More public, there is the website Inxxxxm.
This website brings together the world's public cameras, and according to the national city time classification, as long as you click in, you can see the online live broadcast of this camera.
They claimed: "Using the camera manufacturer's preset password to crack these cameras, because the user did not replace the original preset password, it was connected by the website, and even put the image on the Internet." ”
"If you don't want to be put online, you can email and ask for removal."
"If you don't want to be contacted by email, change your camera password."
However, this means that if you don't know your camera is cracked, you will be broadcast openly live without your knowledge.
Although the website claims not to broadcast any sensitive privacy footage, this can only be supervised by the website operators themselves.
When you click on the website, you will find live shots of churches, restaurants, farms, streets, bars, private gardens, beaches, and barbershops, playing 24 hours a day under various categories.
When you click on it, you become an invisible observer, condescending to look into the lives of those who don't know it.
What's even more disturbing is that this is just one of the most well-known of its kind.
For those smaller live camera sites, they will even actively put those 'private space' cameras on the home page to attract higher traffic.
It will be more popular in the room, in the bedroom, and even in the bathroom.
As a result, the privacy of the lives of the owners of these cameras was broadcast live without their knowledge.
And they most likely never know that millions of people watch their every move every day...
Don't feel that this matter is far away from us: this is not only happening abroad, but also at home, there is also a whole black industrial chain.
Some time ago, a news said: "Shaanxi man Wu Moucheng cracked 180,000 home cameras in less than a year, illegally profiting more than 800,000 yuan." ”
This is a very complete industrial chain.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
According to Wu's confession, he runs an APP that can control other people's cameras, controlling 180,000 cameras around the world.
He then built a website for promotion, downloading, installing, and charging.
In the APP, he is divided into three grades according to the recharge amount, ordinary members can only see 4 screens at a time, advanced points can see 8 screens, and the most advanced one can brush out 16 screens.
For those who want to watch "special" pictures through the camera, he also set up a QQ group to sell these resources.
Being able to earn more than 800,000 yuan from such an industry proves that there are more people who are willing to spy on the privacy of others than we think.
Therefore, even if Wu Moucheng is captured, the industrial chain will continue to exist.
The reporter of "Eye of the Storm" once pretended to be a buyer who wanted to buy camera video and negotiated with the seller, and the seller said that as long as he paid, he would give the buyer's camera account ID and password, and from then on, he could watch the content of this camera anytime and anywhere and monitor the lives of others.
(Source: China News Network)
Even in order to reassure reporters, they also offered a "trial account" for reporters to experience.
After the reporter entered the password, they found that they could clearly see the every move of the people inside, hear what they said, and even remotely control the camera...
There are many camera owners who have asked for help: "Why didn't I adjust the lens, but the camera automatically turned?" ”
This may not be haunting, or the machine is malfunctioning.
but...... The truth can be more terrifying than haunting.
So, if you have a camera at home, you must pay attention to it...
Buy a regular brand camera, change the password immediately after returning home, and do not use the default account password;
If it is not necessary, do not network the camera; if you must connect to the Internet, use the unpopular access port to avoid the port of the constant attack; if possible, try to upgrade the camera version immediately...
In addition, there is also physical protection of privacy, such as not aligning the bedroom and bed, and covering when not in use.
However, if you want to really solve this matter, you can't rely on people to be vigilant.
Even if we all know to improve camera security after reading this article, there will still be countless people's lives that will be broadcast live.
In the end, if you want to truly control this terrorist industry and protect the privacy of everyone, you still need to increase supervision and crack down on the industrial chain.
In this way, let this horrible thing really disappear ...