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Attention for this particular issue is nice. But all these reports are not going to reach the actual user.

I don't see anybody making such a big fuss when people don't close the curtains in their home at night (or even during the day). Sure you can see who is peeking into your house, but technically is it much different then a insecure/unconfigured webcam?

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In the case of the general public it is different. A curtain is a highly intuitive instrument for privacy protection, you pull it and it covers the window. Understanding how to secure a technical device such as a webcam is not as easy or intuitive, especially if as another poster mentioned, the device is configured to broadcast automatically. People will almost always stay with the defaulted configuration unless they fully understand the technology, hence the reason wifi routers now come with long cryptic random passwords.

>> "But all these reports are not going to reach the actual user."

I think it might. It was one of the top headlines on the evening news in the UK and the main message was to users - change your password. How many acted on that I don't know but the reports certainly got out to regular people.

It's been on the news here to, i didn't see any drop in the number of cams online from my country.

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