User:Ms7821/Security theatre

Currently webcams are easy to access on any device, simply by knowing the URL.

The following people requested for it to be members only

Montyphy	?
TheHypnotist	Morris
SamLR	Sam Cook
Russss	Russ Garrett
layer1gfx	Chris
SheraDreaming	Lauren
roberthl	Robert Leverington

The following people requested it be left public

Renski	Darren McDonald
ms7821	Mark Steward
dmi	David Ingram
Paul2	Paul Dart
elliot_w	Elliot West
solexious	Charles Yarnold
earthshine	Mike McRoberts
srimech	Jim MacArthur
dirkx	Dirk-Willem van Gulik
tajasel	Katie Sutton
tomwyatt	Tom Wyatt
Phil	Phil Roy
v21	George Buckenham
varoudis	Tasos Varoudis

The following people requested a new shareable URL

Sunkzero	Darren Hubbard
eb4890	Will Pearson
Eithin	Sam Kelly
TheHypnotist	Morris

Roberthl has already suggested a rearrangement of the cameras[1].

I hope that's enough, but if not, here's how the members-only limit might work without causing too much disruption:

• Logged in user visits webcam page
• Auth cookie is checked; user is given a long-lived cookie with auth details
• User is redirected to current URL with key (random)
• Current URL with key can be distributed

Periodically, current URL changes

• When current URL key is wrong, long-lived cookie is checked and user reauthenticated
• If user is still active, user is redirected to current URL with key
• If not, user is invited to ask on IRC

This of course does nothing to protect against a member who forwards the streams, or writes an API to make the URL available to the wider world. But hey, it might stop a tiny bit of trolling.