Modern baby monitors include live video feeds -- which are disappointingly often connected to the internet without any authentication required (e.g. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kttc.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;28712087&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;rochester-family-finds-their-nanny-cam-hacked-for-the-world-to-see" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kttc.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;28712087&#x2F;2015&#x2F;04&#x2F;03&#x2F;rochester-fami...</a>). Others have two-way audio and similar nonexistent authentication (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kashmirhill&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;baby-monitor-hacker-still-terrorizing-babies-and-their-parents&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;kashmirhill&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;29&#x2F;baby-moni...</a>).<p>Presumably the current news interest in baby monitors is whether they&#x27;re safe (or which models are safe) from people using simple Google or Shodan searches to find these devices and use them to annoy or snoop on you, since that&#x27;s exactly what&#x27;s been happening.<p>Anyway you&#x27;re imploring the media to do something it doesn&#x27;t do -- to be more technical and less alarmist -- which is admirable but probably also futile.