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Answer by Behbood
Submitted on 6/27/2004
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Hi people there! I was searching for a virtual drive of webcam that came to this page... nice talks,... My name is Behbood ,an Iranian Azeri Turk from Tabriz,... here in Iran it is not completely illegal to view cams without your permission,... however our girls do not "do porn" on cams :D Here, even you can buy any softwares or games fully registered by less than 0.2 $... It's fun isn't it? Friends, I sreached for CamBuster... did not find anything... but it IS possible, I shall search more and I'll find it accidentally ;-) One of my friends coded one of such programs... I used it but unfortunately it shows only SOMEtimes... I want to develope it ...I'm a computer engineering student... the address is: http://www.topiran.com/webcam.htm try it, it may work always in your Internet Speed,... mine is slow :( I just seen 5 times ...) Dear friends there, I know all of you have a passion in porno,... That's why you're looking for such things,... anyway do not give this information to all of your friends or it will be valueless,... If you want to be a professional chatter in Yahoo, Search, download and install programs like: YEmote+ , CamGrab , http://www.topiran.com/multilogin.htm , and lots of other things,... I have their register code... any way if you do not have a webcam, try VirtualCamera and SoftCam... it will help you to do "Social Engineering" and watch fully legal :D My website is www.behbood.tk , I'll change it soon and it will be useful for you when uptodated... My e-mail is behbood@behbood.tk ,... I'm looking for a program called MoveCast and also looking for new reg.code of VirtualCamera... I'm also looking for penfriends all over the world,...I can speak most of the languages of Middle East and Middle Asia,... If you feel you can be a "TRUE Friend" send an email to me, 20 m here ,... Girls shall have cams with permission :)) Good Luck! and if you find something interesting drop me a line... I'll help you in any case :) behbood@behbood.tk

Answer by Car
Submitted on 8/17/2004
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A friend sent me here because I have had people viewing my cam without my permission. I figure that if I am going to be nude on cam and people know it, then they are going to hack in to watch it. I mean come on people, some say the program exists others say it doesn't, It doesn't really matter that is a pointless argument that can go on forever. If you do not want your cam hacked or viewed without your permission, STOP going to chat rooms then. Have only the people that you want to see you naked on your friend's list and then your problem is eliminated. And honestly, as for prosecuting to the full extent of the law, you can't really catch them anyways, even IF you can get their IP, it will be changed soon enough anyways. So stay out of the chat rooms, and stay off your cam naked in a chat room. THERE PROBLEM SOLVED!

Answer by Be-Gone
Submitted on 9/24/2004
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It is possible to view yahoo webccams without permission if you can create the user's own webcam view token. as you might know if you turn your yahoo webcam on and try to view yourself from the same name, it wont ask permission. yahoo uses a mac64 encoded token to authorize all webcam functions such as turning your cam on or view someone's cam. thus if you can create someone own webcam token and make the cam viewer ocx supplied with yahoo sends that token and their own name as the viewer it will let you view and wont ask them permission however their own anme will be in their "who's Viewing" list. there is also an easy way to stop this.if you connect 2 of the same name viewers to a cam then disconnect one the name will drop off their list however the other viewer will still be viewing. this exploit is used in a program called YaView. YaView lets you ghost as they call it but still asks permission. yes i have a working cam viewer without asking permission cept i'm not willing to give it out as people will abuse the tool i've made only as a proof of concept program and its not intended for people to abuse other people's privacy.

Answer by Stupid Peopl
Submitted on 11/16/2004
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Any of you thinking that looking at your webcam is imposable need to get educated... this is very possable... I am a CT (Crypto Tech) in the U.S. Navy... computer security means nothing to me... I create and break computer security for the U.S. Navy... secure our computers... and break into foreign computers to see what I can find... I do this 16 hours a day... anything on your computer is accessible to anyone with knowledge... especially with yahoo messanger webcam... you think yahoo's security even comes near to the U.S. Navy's security? Yahoo messenger's security is as easy as picking a bathroom door lock... the one's you just take something small enough to fit in the hole and push

Answer by PeeWee101
Submitted on 2/11/2005
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1. Cam Viewer's Anonymous v2.0 for yahoo 2. Cammer (anonymous cam) for yahoo all as it goes says.. Anonymous Cammers Code desiged to bypass a users original code is always changing while being on Cam as.. for keyloggers to view the original code.. you won't know it from head to tail.. and how to copy the code as it goes e.g. eEaSD!~10001....bla bla bla... Yahoo has atleast 10 to 30 hacker proof technicians.. that carry out various techniques to bypass the security measurments they corrected them selves on the server.... as for viewing a cam.. the log is entered into the server the moment you get to look up a cam...who'z where and what time....therefore logical thing would be is to ask... if they deny... you move on.....why look at someones life..its not differnt from yours.....just some are well off and weathy in life and hearts.....but think if your time comes and and someone wants to peek at yours....without your permission...would u like it...not worth your life just for a jerk in the dark. secondly... get married pal....free internet or accessable cam without permission is a theory.. thats never gonna take place.. cause the ones who know how to bypass laws... won't like the idea to give simple users a seat of power... humanity is cruel when it comes to gainin control. would CIA or FBI want their funds or authorties taken away and given to the Department of justice or defence...the idea is applicable... but.. in these times.. No. Yes laws are made to be broken.. but if you didn't.. it won't hurt your life...atleast in your heart.. you won't have guilt on your side.

Answer by unnikuttan
Submitted on 2/28/2005
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i dont think so.i dont know whether cam buster exists or not.but i will tell u all there is a program for viewing webcam without permission.that means the terminal person must enter yahoo messenger.he or she may not need to enter chat room. we can view their cam without asking or without starting their cam. in java if you are through with UDP,TCP,InetAddress then u can write program fo that.i had done that and is working well.but i will not give u that program.i will help u writing that.its way is first give the end user a pm message.after that immediately set the connection.now ur in line with the terminal person.make I/Ostreams for that socket.and read the file from ur InputStream.but u will get all these as byte array.simply conver it using ImageViewer class and some other methods.but the main problem is u cannot view more than one cam at a time.even if we use multi threading too we can view one cam becoz we r viewing without a proxy server .that means we have to refresh every 330ms time.if ur using 1024kbps speed internet u can view multiple cams.that all try writing with these relevent information .best of luck to all

Answer by chaos_of_the_3rd_order
Submitted on 4/6/2005
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you poor fools...~laffs to himself~...lets start this by educateN you on somfin. if any program stats it can view cams wifout promission then go ahead and d/l it...have fun wif it....but know this...who ever coded the proggie...is now in your computer....these programs may work...infact they probably do work...but not like you are thinking... they are recording every page you go to... every key you are hitting with your little cumsoaked fingers...here is an idea...why not talk to the person you are trying to view..get to noe them a little...then after you invest a little time...they are more then likely to do anything you want on the cam...you might be thinking...why would anyone want to know what im doing on my pc...well its not like they are out to get you...they just like to feel the power they have over you...hmmmmmmmmm does that sound like there are ppl out thier like that?

Answer by Behbood
Submitted on 6/15/2005
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Hi, ppl There were lots of e-mails on this topic from the day I posted this message above... anyway do u know a way for deleting it from this page,.. lol! my friends, new version of Yahoo! Messenger (v7) has high security... these programs will not work with them either.... but there are other ways too, I'm graduating university and very busy nowadays, I'll change my website in this summer and put some useful articles... but for now, if you think you are intelligent, use VirtualCamera to cheat the person (it will be fun to record someone's cam using CamGrab and broadcasting it to him/herself using VirtualCamera), and the best way is to get her/his Yahoo! password so that you can change her/his settings so that you will watch her/him without permisson... it's fun to read personal emails too, if you can hack ...! and also if you are a professional you can use some trojans like BackOrifice2 to have full control on the target computer.... I'll write more, soon

Answer by superspy
Submitted on 6/27/2005
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Ok all u ppl... listen up first of all those ppl who said there is no such software to view yahoo cam.....let me tell u something there is coz i have coded it... and what "ISPSecGuy" the one who works for isp.. ok watever he said is kinda true... and i have coded a software myself... it actually will let you view yahoo cams... any cam without permison ... if u know that the user has a cam and is on u just have to put in his id and clik on connect and ..it wont even ask for permission nor will it display your name in there whos watching me list.... .. there is a real small gr8 trick to it ppl...... it took me around 4 months just to get this thing working fine.... there is only two copys of it... one with me and one with my gf..

Answer by johndoe
Submitted on 7/29/2005
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Hello guys, I did read most answers, I am in this about computers for a long time. You cannot see an yahoo webcam without permission; as you cannot see an yahoo email without the password. SO EASY. Okay, guys, try to think 2 times, ask yourself; Yahoo corporation allows to see webcams without permission? Do you think that the US gov. will allow to see free porno cams? for everybody? for CHILDREN? without ANY PASSWORD or security system? do you think that YAHOO or MSN don't KNOW THAT??? There is tooooooo much money on the internet scene for take so BIG risk. And Yahoo! or MSN will NEVER NEVER NEVER will allow that. They are NOT idiots. If you think that... maybe they will allow to see a web cam without permission, really you are stupid, or you are a sex maniac, already more stupid. Cambuster, YaCam, and rest "FOR IDIOTS" programs, are just made for TAKE YOUR MONEY. But I am happy by that, because people who PAY for that, need to know what means to be a PERFECT IDIOT, and to be stolen. Just, think 2 times. Baby. johndoe

Answer by Hitman
Submitted on 8/5/2005
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Viewing without actual permission is quite possible. 2 things are required. 1st you need the users sn & pw. This can be gotten as previously described with a trojan. @nd you need the program Camseek. With it you can get a token for this sn and then using that person's own sn to request, you are connected automatically. Whether it's on deny or not. You also don't show on the persons' viewer list. Camseek also allows you to comprise a list of sn's and check when their cams are online, whether the user is invisible or not. I know this because it happened to a friend by her ex. he knew her pw and viewed this way for months, He showed her a capture of her cam that was recent so she knew he was on without permission.I have since tried it with her as a test, and it indeed did what i have described.

Answer by Behbood
Submitted on 8/7/2005
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Hi friends, It was long time ago when I posted in this forum, but now want to delete, anyone can help? It makes some trouble for me, lots of people email me on this topic, but please just email me if you have some more news and want to trade information, I got some clues, as I said there is no REAL cam buster, it is just a fake name which adult sites use to do advertisement tricks, however you may found some programs called CamBuster but it is not what we were talking about, some people write some programs and name it CamBuster, I have recieved some of them, and a few are even trojans, do not run until you are sure what you are doing, one of the friends yeserday sent me a program called CamBuster v1 and asked me for newer versions, when I opened it I saw that it is exactly the YaCam which I have talked about before, do not use the address which I gave in my recent posts, there are lots of such programs with different versions, and all of them request a cam view permission as an anonymous user, so they are no help! you can even find its source code on the web... Do not waste your time on seraching for fake names... there are other ways too, the easiest way is Social Engineering ! If you could not find any crack for VirtualCamera, use another free program called SplitCam... Or if you can hack, BackOrifice2+ is prefered, or if you can get the person's password change her/his settings so that you can see her/him without permission I'll send more new info soon!

Answer by b1_4d
Submitted on 8/23/2005
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Hey all, just here to let you know that I have the answer and also the proof, too! It's supper easy, but I have worked long to find the way. I have hours-upon-hours of great and hot "footage" that I have recorded and burnt to CD.(completely legit!) To prove my honesty, I will tell you how to record cams now,,, just search Yahoo for "ScreenVirtuoso Pro". (This is Shareware, you need to record at about 15 sps, pix quality set to 100% with "cam pix enlarged X3 and cam set to always on top". Put your control box in the small space at the side of the cam pix for easy access) Download for free and go. Now, how do you get at the Cams to record? "What is the rest of the information worth?" Talk to me @ b1_4d_ladies@yahoo.com I am expecting alot of e-mail, so be patient.

Answer by Ki Hisho
Submitted on 11/21/2005
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To all debating and or discussing this particular issue: 1) Please understand and be forewarned that any such activity without the explicit permission of all parties involved may and can be construed as a crime under several Local, State, and Federal Statutes within at least the United States. Furthermore the U.S. can and does regularly cooperate with foriegn governments in many cases. 2) For those residing within the United States please research the Patriot Act both as now applied and future proposals being "considered" in relation to issues of personal privacy Vs. Governmental authority. NOW....having stated the above in good faith that all who read this may be forewarned of possible incrimination..... Please be advised that this particular programing technology most certainly can and does exist regardless of ones personal oppinions to the contrary. I therefore offer a small "clue" in support of that bold statement. Please reference the "sticker" located on almost any electronic device purchased within the United States. Unless this sticker has been removed it plainly and clearly "warns" the purchaser that "This device complies with part 15 of the FCC ( Federal Communications ) Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) This device must ACCEPT any interference recieved, including interference that may cause undesired operation" The Key statement therin is clause 2, thus authorizing the interference with any item which uses, recieves, transmits, or otherwise manipulates an electronic signature in applied communicative format or otherwise. This primarily gives Governmental Authority, admittedly. However what the Government can do an individual can do, although the scale may differ. Although I am not at liberty to discuss the fine details of where such "programs" may be found, and cannot affirm any such program or its capabilities by name in a public format, I will attest to all who read that such programming capabilities do in fact exist. If you simply MUST attempt such a search, I would advise extreme care both in that search and in ANY use of such capabilities, once obtained. If you are not a competent Computer Programmer I would HIGHLY suggest you simply avoid this topic and obtain your "visual eroticism" by both legal and accepted means.

Answer by strangerx
Submitted on 12/21/2005
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my name is strangerx i was looking for that famous cumbuster i didn`t find it there`s no such a thing i`ve looked on yahoo and everywhere but all the links are fake so me and my brother made a way to view the cams that took about 20days but it`s working all you have to do is to use MSN messenger but not the regular version use the VB version and play with some commands and you can wach more than 10 cams at the same time and even if your contacts have the mic you can hear em all you need is a fast modem and a faster brain like mine so if you wanna know how to do that you`ll have to contact me dark-eyes_darker-soul@hotmail.com i`ll give you everything you need to wach all the cams and me and my bro r still working on something even better to wach ppl by cam even if they are logged in i mean start the cam even if they are not logged in yahoo or MSN if they are connected to the internet you`ll see them if they have a cam for sure but it`s pretty hard to do it but we are working on it by the way if someone has blocked you we can give you a little trick to make him deblock you without he`s knowledge he`ll deblock u without knowing what`s he`s dowing all that is in our website www.gharnatidesign.fr.ms we can give you also some tricks to get some passwords and use someone elses account and that kind of staff and by the way if someone have a proof of the existence of that cambuster let me know plz cause i really wanna know how it works it`ll help me with my work dark-eyes_darker-soul@hotmail.com thanx

Answer by Mr. fake Degrees Diplomas
Submitted on 1/29/2006
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Submitted on 1/29/2006
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Answer by walter
Submitted on 1/31/2006
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Hey such programs do exist, myself and my girlfriend have had several ocasions where we have had people apear viewing as annonymous that have not asked for permision. As to how ido not know. They are not using a trojan as i have formated a dn antivirused much in an effort to stop it. We are not that upset about it it is a bit of a game "are they watching?" but at the same time if i could trace them i would. Doesanyone know how to trace someone who is viewing your cam illegaly? i can get the ip# fot anyone on yahoo whopviews as anonymous so that would be enough... it s easy if you check the profile for anonymous you can get it from there... so be careful SPYS it aint that anonymous. What do you do with the IP#? i have looked for such software as i wouldnt mind having a look myself, eg.. is my GF flashing to strangers on cam? lol i hope so. i am fairly confident that there is no real'camgrabberexe' as detailed above after investigation. there would be some strong likelyhood from reliable 'gossip' lol that camseek/firecam and even some talk that camgrab has an exploit that can be manipulated to let you in as anonymous (and anonymous aint anonymous lol (actually my version of norton will track an IP as close as a city so im sure the feds could do a bit better than that lol)) baket snuffing would be the way to go it would seem and i am certain there is software out there that will do it... i mean i have a program that piks up webcam packets and sends them on can tell you where they are being sent from room and to usernames.. so i am sure they have one tthat can show you the image to. So if you have such a product, let me know? its interesting stuff. But if you think that just viewing as Anonymous without permission from an exploit is really 'Anonymous' lol well just go on thinking that....

Answer by DeathGate@Yahoo.com
Submitted on 5/23/2006
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Okay to settle this thing once and for all here all some things ALL of which are true so we can all stop talking about it. 1- There are such programs that can hack a persons webcam HOWEVER the only ones who have it and will not get arrested for it are government workers etc. 2- If yahoo or whoever you are using to broadcast your webcam from at any time has reason to believe that you're misusing your cam they can just look w/o permission ONLY to see if they need to ban you from their service 3- There is a VERY slim chance that a government official will screw up and give someone access to hack webcams so don't bother searching cause any REAL WORKING cam hacking programs won't show up in a search engine 4- hacking of ANY sort is punished by a min. of 1 yr of violating private info but webcams count as spying so you would be punished as if you were hiding in the bushes looking thru a window (Stalking charges) a min. of 2 yrs max of 5 yrs with a $7,000 bail and a $2,000 release fee so stop and think before you try the basically impossible task of hacking a cam

Answer by smeghead
Submitted on 6/5/2006
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First off, why would you want to view someones webcam without thier permission ? Are you a sad looser sat at home jerking off ? Secondly people who say they have it and don't post a link are either lying or less than ten years old and have no net experience at all. I have been on net for over 12 years now and have learned many tricks and know that if it's out there it can be found in 10 minuets. If you can't find it then it does not exist. if you wanna see people on webcam without there permission get paltalk and watch them on that. i'm not saying it's impossible as you can always use a trojan like bionet or sub7 ...e.t.c or write a piece of code yourself. But you will be caught, would you rob a bank and ask for the money to be delivered to your address ???

Answer by fingerprince
Submitted on 8/24/2006
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I did some research on the answer of this question, and no your webcam is not secure !! This is why: The answer is simple in theory. To understand this you have to know about internet traffic. Every information (files, mails, webcam streams, etc..) are cut into little pieces before they're sent to the internet, socalled 'packets'. Every packet has some information in his 'header': sequence number, comming from IP-adress, going to IP-adress, date time and other information. Thank'sto the header information every packet finds its way to the correct PC. Every PC has more then 65.000 doors to allow internet traffic going in or out. The fact is that webcam streams, always go out through the same port of your computer and always go in through the same port of the PC on the other side of the Web. There are forums to give you the answer to which ports are used for which webcamstream (yahoo,MSN,...). Now if you are able to intercept the packets from let's say port 1680(the outgoing port for yahoo webcamstreams), modify the header of the packets (destination IP to your IP), than the packets will be sent to your PC. If you are running a standalone version of a yahoo webcamviewer, you will see the images on your computer screen. So this is the theory. What does that mean in practice? 1) you have to know the IP adress of a person who is camming at that moment. There are ways to find out IP-adresses. Just make sure you don't get stuck on the IP of the ISprovider of the person in question. 2) You have to know the sending port of the webcam application. There are forums to find those out. 3) You have to get a program that can intercept packets and modify the header of the packets. These programs exist: socalled packet sniffers. Don't ask me which program is best for this application, but it has to be one where you can: - give in a target IP - give in a target port - give in a destination IP - give in a destination port If you have any suggestions i'mwilling to try it out. 4) you have to get a stand alone version of the webcamviewer in question. These versions exist only I don't know if they are suited for this application. For Yahoo: Yacam might be suitable, for MSN: MSN webcam recorder (ml20gui.exe) If any of you newbie geeks are willing to try this out, keep me informed of your findings.

Answer by Solvation
Submitted on 4/9/2007
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Technically its possible to watch people's webcam (without permission). There is only 2 problems: 1. Yahoo does have a fairly good security surrounding the webcam problem. Which if you could somehow bypass it, the new problem would be you can ONLY see webcam when the webcam is ALREADY on at yahoo (so the user sees the webcam on). In which most likely you will show up anywayz as a viewer. 2. Solution to that is to have some type of Trojan virus. Which brings the problem you have to sent it to the other computer (somehow) AND someone or something has to open the program on the computer for you. With this keep in mind people do use virus-scanners. You can't really sent it to people on Yahoo that easily to get them to open it. Somehow people seem to be thinking that they are anonymous on here. Current technology makes it easily possible for police or any other instance like it, to find you IP address. With that IP address they can contact your provider ( the provider for the IP ) which will most likely know where you live. In case of authorities approaching them with the prove of abuse on the internet (any illegal kind in your country), they can actually prosecute you. Luckily they only do this when they have proof and someone kicking there butties to get to work on it. So to this msg: Answer by assholes Submitted on 3/21/2004 Rating: Rate this answer: N/A Worst Weak OK Good Great Anyone who is trying to view cams without permission should rot in hell. That's people's personal lives. If my husband and I are chatting and camming, that's none of anyone else's f***** business! You sick f*s. I wish anyone caught violating in any way would spend the maximum sentence allowed. That's a violation of privacy. And though I know laws vary by state, I can guarantee that if I had knowledge of it happening in any way, I would prosecute to the full extent. Please do try, cause im too lazy to! You might want to prosecute the creators for Cam Buster (any version) for bringing illegal software available. Or for faking the software and trying to rob people from there money. I would like to reply on this message aswell: Answer by Backdoor Submitted on 5/1/2004 Rating: Not yet rated Rate this answer: N/A Worst Weak OK Good Great A program exists and works great!!! It is not for messenger alone. it records whenever victims web-cam is on and a lot more. like Ripley says "Believe it or not" they do exist. p.s. Its free, firewalls and av don`t stop it, does not show in reg. or running processes on victims comp. if i don`t have it send me an im in messenger(need your IP) no fear...right? Very smart to post this on a public forum. This program was trying to solve problem 1. Which most likely means you see your being watched. If it wasn't then it had to be sent to someone. Every virus/trojan created can be found again, although i have to admit solving the problem to find a rare trojan/virus is more difficult. To close it off, its EXTREMELY unlikely to watch a cam without someone knowing unless she or he opened a program its nearly impossible to do so without permission (of some kind). Or without the webcam actually already being on and RISK of showing up on the view list (even if you didn't need the permission). I wish the people that want to prosecute any virus/trojan creators, fake software sellers, abusers of trojan viruses or people breaking into the privacy of others in any other way, good luck ! If you make a lot of work of it i'mquite sure you will succeed.

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Question by sadhir
Submitted on 7/1/2003
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Hi, Is Yahoo messenger webcam secure? Can someone intercept the webcam if you don't give permission. That is, Using Yahoo messenger, If a friend allows you to view his webcam, can anyone else also see it without the permission of the broadcaster. Thanks ch_majeed@yahoo.com

Answer by targus
Submitted on 10/1/2003
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Only way to get into someone else's webcam is by sending a trojan to the intended camera host. Available programs work same as keylogger. Search google or try Kazaa.

Answer by anony
Submitted on 10/27/2003
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just so ya know, using a program or trying for forced entry on any webcam is illigale and punishable by 20,000 dallor fine and upto 6 months in jail. just thought you should know...... also, the only way to "break" into a webcam is to packet snuff. meaning you have to "borrow" the senders packets in order to view webcams on yahoo. that is the only way.

Answer by irishguy
Submitted on 12/9/2003
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For all of your intrest there's a prog out there called Cambuster V2.0 that lets you view somones cam without permission also save what they see take pic's and even if they denyed access it will show the Cam.

Answer by toenail
Submitted on 12/14/2003
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cambuster is a fake.. look around

Answer by FreakSession
Submitted on 1/14/2004
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http://ZooZource.Info look there. they had an interesting article regarding this.

Answer by alan
Submitted on 1/19/2004
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it will be if u the user over 18

Answer by desoman
Submitted on 1/25/2004
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i have cambuster 3.0, i can see anyone i want if they have thier cam on, it beats porn big time

Answer by lucasx
Submitted on 1/25/2004
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can u plz tell me where i can download cambuster ?

Answer by pecker
Submitted on 2/4/2004
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yo where can i get cmabuster i really want it

Answer by Good Grief
Submitted on 2/10/2004
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people there is no such program to view cams without permission..there are hundreds of programs that will let you view anonymously, but is still subject to permission. I have looked for 6 months now and I assure you no such program exists

Answer by PapaPimpin from ZooZource.Info
Submitted on 2/13/2004
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Actually, there are 2. I know because a friend of mine coded one, and another I just found on the net. None for yahoo cam, but both are made specifically for Ifriends, and the other I think like xxxcambabes or something like that.

Answer by sexu2me
Submitted on 3/10/2004
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loveyoutoo

Answer by theo marathon
Submitted on 3/10/2004
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Well i do NOT love this... Someone is lying here...Desoman says he has cambuster 3.0, Good Grief says such a program does NOT exist.... Come on Desoman, prove us you're not a lyer...(I guess that'll be impossible)

Answer by chirag
Submitted on 3/20/2004
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i agree with good grift . there is no software on net or this is not possible in future. so stop and try to see legally. ur u will go to jail

Answer by Kalinka
Submitted on 4/17/2004
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0.5$ per min !!! HOT adult internet model WELCOME http://www.geocities.com/camkalinka/index.html

Answer by assholes
Submitted on 3/21/2004
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Anyone who is trying to view cams without permission should rot in hell. That's people's personal lives. If my husband and I are chatting and camming, that's none of anyone else's f***** business! You sick f*s. I wish anyone caught violating in any way would spend the maximum sentence allowed. That's a violation of privacy. And though I know laws vary by state, I can guarantee that if I had knowledge of it happening in any way, I would prosecute to the full extent.

Answer by spaghetti
Submitted on 4/4/2004
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the cambuster v3.0 is at www.suckers.com and it is $400!!! just hand over the visa number and have a blast!! :()>

Answer by OverDoozen
Submitted on 4/12/2004
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Fake , Completely FAKE !

Answer by raja
Submitted on 4/15/2004
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no this is not fake there is nothing fake someone is right you can view cam without permission you just have to go and download the cambuster v4 new virson of it and enjoy.but listen it is not free it is around 400$usd enjoy:D

Answer by �dmin
Submitted on 4/16/2004
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F*** ITS TOTALLY FAKE

Answer by NPQ
Submitted on 4/19/2004
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Is there free sofware?

Answer by diablo
Submitted on 4/24/2004
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Actually both parties are wrong...e-mails are subjected to be read and the same thing goes to cams...if the government can do it so can the public..my buddy in college has already created a program designed for such thing..i will keep you updated..oh and thank the Patriot Act for such programs!

Answer by superman
Submitted on 4/29/2004
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so is there software out there or not and if so where

Answer by sidewinder
Submitted on 5/1/2004
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lighten up assholes, nobody wants to see you anyway!! you may want to read the "terms of service" some types of "camming" are not really allowed anyway. they would prosecute you as fast as the other "sick*****"! If no program exist or can not exist let them look!! why get so shook up?? unless!!!

Answer by Backdoor
Submitted on 5/1/2004
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A program exists and works great!!! It is not for messenger alone. it records whenever victims web-cam is on and a lot more. like Ripley says "Believe it or not" they do exist. p.s. Its free, firewalls and av don`t stop it, does not show in reg. or running processes on victims comp. if i don`t have it send me an im in messenger(need your ip) no fear...right?

Answer by ISPSecGuy
Submitted on 5/3/2004
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It helps if you have access to ISP itself. I use to work in an ISP then, i had an ethreal packet sniffer installed and a proprietary program built to re-assemble the webcam packets and stream it back to my yahoo messenger. And i found out i could also re-assemble a lot more like, emails and other streams like netvoice and even voice conference on yahoo :D Ofcourse if you want something, you have to build it yourself. Oh well will you trust your ISP now? hehe.

Answer by TONI
Submitted on 5/8/2004
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can u plz tell me where i can download cambuster ? farid_safi@yahoo.com

Answer by WiseGuy
Submitted on 5/10/2004
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I would also like to know where to download a free version of cambuster or any program like that sasho_01@hotmail.com

Answer by theo123
Submitted on 5/10/2004
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I too would like to know where to download a version of cambuster or any program like that. I just don't understand how such a program could possibly work... marathon12315@msn.com

Answer by sivivina
Submitted on 5/13/2004
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You want cambuster ? Why don't go to www.google.com and search for it ! Then tell us about trust link to down and how to use. Thank ! sivivina@yahoo.com

Answer by steevie
Submitted on 5/18/2004
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can someone post the name of the ifriends viewer?

Answer by oasis
Submitted on 5/19/2004
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ok people there is such a tool i know this as i have just spent 8 months working on it.it works fine but sorry i cant give you the link for it coz that would put me at risk of being put in jail.it is on the net but hidden .look about for oasisinc you might get some clues there.

Answer by bootlist88@yahoo.ca
Submitted on 5/31/2004
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i to well like to know how and where to download this hot 'needs no permission needed to view webcams' far at i know it's good to have,,and it's legal never heard anybody said otherwise,,,thanks e-mail me that thanks bootslist88@yahoo.ca

Answer by Eric
Submitted on 6/2/2004
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Hey guy, I have to hear about one program can invest webcam request view button Yes and No, when user press No for denided view request then it turn Yes instead No, this is wrap button, there is how it work. Could anybody have to hear about it ? pls advice. thank you

Answer by Angelguy
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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pls contact me if u have a webcam viewer for yahoo without authorization request ntangelguy@yahoo.com