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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm see me - joining me is ian sure executive editor for CNET thanks for being with us okay there is a new site that's getting a lot of attention it's a bit creepy yeah tell us about it well it's the websites called NCCAM and it's basically broadcasting eleven thousand of the cameras that we all put in our little homes across the web surveillance cameras it's everything right yeah Families camera anything is connected to the Internet they are they're showing this to the whole world and the whole point that they're trying to make is that all these cameras have their default passwords and the default passwords because we can all buy them we all know them and they said oh let's see how many people are using default passwords and seems quite a lot east a thousand people eleven thousand people in the US who are doing that yeah and and this isn't just us this is worldwide twenty five hundred in UK there's six in Tanzania all six of them and I mean the point that they're trying to make is that it's huge right this whole connected home stuff is very popular in the US that's why there's so many of them and probably also the specific products that they know about are pretty popular in the US as well but it is a huge problem all around the world um these people are clearly trying to make a statement about you know passwords and not using the default passwords um do we know anything about the people behind the site not much but what's important to know is that this is a long-held tradition around the internet of shaming people about how they handle security right people have gone different lengths for example there was a group called LulzSec which was around 2011 and what they did is they would hack into all sorts of different places including the FBI and the CIA okay and they would basically tell us hey we hacked in these people don't have very good security and then they would do bad stuff with it but their whole point was let's shame people into having better security now those people ended up some of them went to jail right but the important part that insuk am is trying to make a point about is hey we all need to be very unknown knowledgeable about how insecure a lot of our stuff is and we need to do something about it okay um there is a pretty simple fix if you find that your cameras live feed is being broadcast on the insta camp site what is it let's change your password right log into your camera change the password we think if you that might not be simple for a lot of people it isn't right and this is you know the question of the blame right who's responsible obviously insta cam is showing these video feeds and if someone doesn't know they may be in an uncompromised position are they being motive are people being careless users being careless all sorts of stuff and so the thing is we have to think about it in many ways right this is a reminder to the companies hey you should remind people to change your passwords once you turn on the product because they only use default password so it's easy for them to print out the booklet once and send it all in the same box yeah so that's one thing us as users need to be aware that this is a problem and that needs to be fixed right and then obviously insuk am at one point needs to be responsible and make it so that maybe you know people in compromised positions aren't shown on the one rate and one reassurance is if you go to the site the feeds are pulling up very slowly I mean I fortunately yeah you've got some time yeah all right Ian thank you so much for inside scoop I'm Sumi das thanks for watching