Kamerka: Surveillance cameras are pretty much commonplace when you live in cities. Many of these cameras are connected to the internet and can be intentionally or accidentally left open. Exposed devices can be anywhere from businesses to schools, or even inside homes.
A new tool lets you see where such cameras are located.
Until now, we found open devices with the Shodan search engine. But the new tool allows anyone to search for open cameras by address on a map.
The tool tangibly highlights the insecurity we allow around us, and potentially everyone can use it to monitor our home, or our child.
“You can search for cameras around the world and check if there is an open camera near you,” says the security researcher who released the tool, who uses the pseudonym Woj-ciech.
As Wojciech explains, the Kamerka tool combines several different pieces of Python code together. Ultimately, it relies on the Shodan search engine to first find exposed cameras (those running the tool will need to have a Shodan account with an API). 
Then, it uses Geopy, a Python library that makes it easy to georeference addresses and cities. The final magic ingredient is Folium, a Python library that handles map creation.
When a user adds the desired address, the tool returns a list of found devices and creates an HTML map.
Open the file in a browser. The file is interactive, allowing you to move around the selected area by clicking on the markers to display the IP addresses of the cameras in the area.
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