Comments on: Twitter security cam

By: Wedding Music Band

Wedding Music Band — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:07:41 +0000

Keep working, great job! :)

By: Tim Acheson

Tim Acheson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:13:35 +0000

Now Twitter’s own internal systems have been hacked, along with the accounts of Twitter users including celebrities:

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/jul/twitter_hacked_via_google_apps

The initial point of entry wasn’t a gap in Twitter’s security. The hacker(s) gained access through a Google Apps account. The worry with a Google account is, it’s web-based and therefore only as secure as the rest of the Internet. If yuor Google account is compromised and you use Google Docs in a serious commercial setting, your Twitter account will be the least of your worries.

By: mill3001

mill3001 — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:27:33 +0000

ok i built some thing like this with out even doing much moding and just for the compatibility of it i am running xp dark on it i currently have only one cam running right now on mine but what i am running is a simple and free program called home security and it can do all the same stuff twitter can but it can also be accessed from all over the world and that is vid and pic it can send them to your phone but that uses credits that you need to buy but you can have it send them to you in an e mail. this computer i have i set up so it douse not need a monitor and it runs wifi so just about all wireless. to over come not havening a monitor it has another program that is free and that is log me in. you can get that at logmein.com the thing i like about this set up is that is is really portable and can use any web cam up to haw ever many usb ports you have and will send them to your e mail when ever you have a motion or if you set it to do an auto capture for pic or vid or both at the same time. it is not perfect but it gets the job done with no probs and i am working on expaning to more than 3 pcs and about 20 web cams any more questions about this one do a fallow up comment

By: gustavoroberto

gustavoroberto — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:05:53 +0000

Hello, Im from Brazil.

Using Lynx :

echo ’status=Motion Detected! Check Immediately’ | lynx –auth=USER:PASSWORD –dump -post_data http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

By: robcolburn

robcolburn — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:13:26 +0000

There’s a good number of cam’s that act as their own server. So they can e-mail/ftp images and sometimes video of activity. That cuts your need of a comp. and gives you more placement opportunities.

If you can e-mail, then you can pipe with Yahoo Pipes / Dapper.

Tweeting seems arguably less annoying than a text message. A computer cannot judge whether activity seen in a camera is harmful or not, so the best they can do is adjust the sensitivity to activity they see. Maybe you have 4 cameras and don’t want to be receive an sms 10 times a day. Does anyone know a twitter-clone that is more reliable?

By: IceBrain

IceBrain — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:04:54 +0000

If your going to let your computer all day on, you could just install a simple web server like LAMP, so it doesn’t depend on any external services.

By: stupergenius

stupergenius — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:20:19 +0000

Not to mention the SMS services that allow you to send messages directly to your phone. Twitter in the middle here is cool but unnecessary.

By: Chacha102

Chacha102 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:40:15 +0000

There is one problem. If Twitter goes down, and then someone breaks in… you kind of are out of luck :)

By: Geekner

Geekner — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:51:02 +0000

How about taking this one step further? Add a bluetooth dongle to the computer running the webcam. Set it to automatically connect to your cell phone. Whenever the bluetooth is not associated, allow it to run the security cam script. Simple way to differentiate from the user being home and away.

I assume twitter allows you to set a profile private? I would rather not allow someone to see pictures of my home.

Also, isn't it possible to skip the twitter step altogether, and email pictures/text directly to your phone? Verizon allows you to email (phonenum)@vzw.com and it will be recieved by your phone.