The Evocam, like many budget IP cameras, shipped with a default web server built in. When Maren created her custom webcam.html page to access the feed, she'd done it on the camera's local IP address. What she didn't realize — what the manual buried in fine print on page 47 — was that the camera's UPnP settings had quietly opened a port on her router.
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Maren had bought the Evocam — a small, white, dome-shaped IP camera — to monitor her apartment during a string of break-ins in her building. Three units hit in November, all ground floor, all while tenants were at work. The landlord had sent a passive-aggressive email suggesting "personal vigilance" rather than, say, installing actual security. The Evocam, like many budget IP cameras, shipped
