Universal Plug and Play can automatically open ports on your router, making your camera discoverable to search engines like Google or Shodan. Turn it off on both the camera and the router. Ethical Note

This stands for . It is a video compression format where each video frame is compressed separately as a JPEG image.

The answer lies in three common misconfigurations:

: Adjust the image quality (0 to 100) to balance clarity and data usage.

: Tells Google to find pages where the URL contains "axis-cgi," the standard directory for Axis Communications developer API commands.

If the camera is placed in a private space (home interior, medical facility, locker room), capturing or redistributing that video violates wiretapping, privacy, and computer misuse laws in most jurisdictions.