This is truly frightening and interesting at the same time. How are so many of these Trendnet IP cameras just exposed to the public internet with their own IP addresses? And I'd like to know why do so many people use security cameras to record video of nothing in particular (empty warehouses, the street, etc).

FYI these cameras were found to have a backdoor to view the images:

http://www.webpronews.com/security-cameras-hacked-2012-02