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Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)

  • Hacker News

Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery, authentication testing, enumeration and stream validation...

  • Published: Apr 20, 2026
  • First seen: Apr 20, 2026
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery, authentication testing, enumeration and stream validation...

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Why it matters

Primary discovery source is Hacker News.

Key Features

  • Primary public product URL is https://github.com/Hackerest/pwneye.
  • Description: Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery....
  • GitHub repository is linked as hackerest/pwneye.
  • Listed on Hacker News as "Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)".
  • Source description: Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery....

Use Cases

  • Primary discovery source is Hacker News.
  • A public GitHub repo is available for direct technical review.
  • Hacker News mention is recent (2026-04-20).
  • Primary public product URL is https://github.com/Hackerest/pwneye.
  • Description: Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery....

Why Now

Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) is appearing on fresh discovery surfaces, so it is worth reviewing while momentum is still forming. Confidence is currently medium (49/100), so treat this as an early signal rather than a settled trend.

Community Signals

Trend score

45.5

24h momentum

Rising

Hacker News points

3

Rising

Facts / Signals / Inference / Unknowns

Facts

  • Listed on Hacker News as "Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)".
  • Source description: Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery....
  • Source publish date is 2026-04-20.
  • Description: Hi HN, I’ve been working on pwneye, a CLI tool for interacting with IP cameras exposing ONVIF and RTSP services. During penetration tests and red team engagements, I kept running into the same friction, with discovery....
  • GitHub repository is linked as hackerest/pwneye.
  • Primary public product URL is https://github.com/Hackerest/pwneye.

Signals

  • Hacker News mention is recent (2026-04-20).
  • A public GitHub repo is available for direct technical review.
  • Primary discovery source is Hacker News.

Inference

  • Public code access can lower evaluation friction for developer audiences.

Unknowns

  • Documentation is not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.
  • No tagline is stored on the current product record.
  • Pricing details are not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.
  • Recent changelog or release history is not explicitly linked in the current allowed evidence set.
  • Release cadence cannot be confirmed unless a changelog or release link is explicitly provided.

Evidence Snapshots

Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)

Listed on Hacker News as "Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP)".

Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) GitHub repository

GitHub repository is linked as hackerest/pwneye.

Pwneye – discovering and accessing IP cameras (ONVIF/RTSP) official profile

Primary public product URL is https://github.com/Hackerest/pwneye.

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Original Sources

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