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Thus, inurl:multi html intitle:webcam was the perfect recipe. The extra word "link" was added later to filter for pages that explicitly contained hyperlinks to individual video streams (like mpeg4/video.cgi ).
A common file structure for these cameras was: http://[camera-ip]/axis-cgi/multi.html inurl multi html intitle webcam link
At first glance, this looks like gibberish. To the untrained eye, it’s a broken sentence. But to a security researcher, it is a key that unlocks a specific category of unsecured, live video feeds across the globe. Thus, inurl:multi html intitle:webcam was the perfect recipe
To find the exact same results on Shodan, you would search: html:"multi.html" title:"webcam" you would search: html:"multi.html" title:"webcam"