Many of these cameras are installed with default factory credentials (e.g., admin/admin) or no password at all.
When entered into a search engine, this query attempts to find unsecured or poorly secured IP camera web interfaces that meet the following criteria: inurl viewerframe mode motion hotel verified
This is a Google (and Bing) advanced search operator. It instructs the search engine to only return results where the subsequent text appears inside the URL of a webpage. For example, inurl:admin finds all pages with "/admin" in their web address. Many of these cameras are installed with default
From a legal standpoint:
The inurl: command tells Google (or Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc.) to look specifically within the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of a webpage. If you search inurl:admin , Google will return every indexed page that has the word "admin" somewhere in the web address. For example, inurl:admin finds all pages with "/admin"