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on september 23, the self-media blogger "shadows don't lie" exposed a video showing several hidden cameras found in a hotel or homestay in a square in shijiazhuang, hebei.

while the blogger was recording the incident as evidence, he was surrounded, pushed, and insulted in the corridor by several homestay owners and other relevant personnel, which led to the further escalation of the situation and quickly triggered a storm of online public opinion.

as of now, the xinhua branch of the shijiazhuang municipal public security bureau has issued an official police report on the matter. the criminals who installed the pinhole cameras have been arrested, and the homestay owners suspected of disturbing public order have been given public security penalties in accordance with the law.

the matter has basically come to an end at this point, and the details of the case and the relevant responsible persons have become clear.

however, the public's strong concerns about privacy security caused by this incident have not disappeared. in fact, it has become more horrifying as various opinions have been raised.

this is the second time the blogger has discovered a camera in the same place in shijiazhuang within three months. judging from the blogger's record of combating voyeurism, similar situations exist not only in shijiazhuang, but in many cities. as for the news of people being voyeuristically filmed by hidden cameras while staying in hotels, everyone is already familiar with it.

many netizens said that pinhole cameras are difficult for ordinary people to detect, which makes them afraid to stay in hotels, b&bs and other places.

many netizens also boldly speculated that the incident exposed this time may not just be an individual illegal act, but may be hiding a more complex black industry chain of voyeurism, live streaming, and even online pornographic transactions.

for example, although this notice stated that the homestay owner and the criminals who installed the camera were not acquainted with each other, some netizens still made a lot of additional interpretations on the homestay owner's extreme behavior and remarks such as "now this camera is connected to my mobile phone."

there is also a netizen who claims to be a former b&b owner in the comment section, saying that several colleagues had approached him and persuaded him to install hidden cameras to secretly film live broadcasts for profit, "the income is much more than the room fee."

the first time he heard about this was in 2018.

some people believe that the installation of pinhole cameras is not an accidental incident, but an organized and premeditated behavior, which may be directly related to underground illegal websites or dark web live broadcast platforms.

telegram, a chat software that uses end-to-end encryption, is known as the "broad dark web" due to its privacy and anonymity.

according to a netizen, he found that there were more than 140,000 members in a hotel live broadcast group on telegram. he estimated that the amount of illegal transactions involved might be as high as 50 million yuan.

140,000 people, what does that mean? the number of members in the telegram chat room of the "nth room incident", a sexual exploitation case that shocked the world, occurred in south korea, was 260,000.

however, when we continued to investigate further along this line of thought, combined with some cryptic clues provided by enthusiastic netizens, we found that the above comment was not completely alarmist.

there is indeed such a channel on telegram now, which shows 141,213 subscribers.and this is just one of the groups.

this makes people wonder whether there are hidden cameras in many hotels and b&bs.another "room n".

in this hotel candid live broadcast group with over 140,000 subscribers, the organizer claimed that they had at least 5 vip channels.pay 99 yuan to get vip status.in the group announcement in june this year, it was stated thatnearly 10,000 hotel hidden camera videos have been updated.

the earliest time these videos were secretly filmed can be traced back to 2017.the most recent one was even secretly filmed last night.

in the latest group advertisement of this channel, they claimed that the number of hotel hidden camera videos in the vip group has increased from nearly 10,000 three months ago to more than 20,000.

moreover, the sales of this channel are highly automated, and basically all the payment is instructed by the software robot. in other words, for a channel with 140,000 people, the transaction rate must not be too low.

in addition, these criminals charge 99 yuan for vip membership when they hold so-called events. as long as you have learned multiplication and think about it, you can imagine how huge this black industry chain is.

this channel, which mainly sells recorded hotel candid videos, is just the one with the largest number of users among many such channels. even as they themselves advertise, the charging standard is already low.

in the countless scattered hotel candid camera channels, the number of subscribers has increased from a few thousand to tens of thousands, and the subscription fees have risen steadily.

there is a recording and broadcasting group that uses high-definition image quality and clear conversations as selling points, charging 138 yuan per person and claiming to support verification.

there are groups that sell full playback of secretly filmed videos, and they even support payment with ustd virtual currency: 150 rmb/20 ustd.

this will make the sources of their illegal income more anonymous, and will also create greater obstacles for law enforcement agencies to investigate and identify their criminal activities.

among them, the most lucrative and rampant ones are those that focus onhotel hidden camera live broadcastchannel.

the charging method of these channels is even crazier, starting at 450 yuan per month.only monthly subscriptions are supported.some even put up advertisements that can be customized (location/type), and the fees for customized membership are over 1,400 yuan or even over 2,000 yuan per month.

huge profits are what tempt people to pull the trigger of criminal guns. to what extent have these channels and groups of viewers who focus on live broadcasting of hotel voyeurism become rampant? in short, it is outrageous.

the news about the blogger @影不能骗局 who cracked down on hidden cameras in hotels at the beginning became a hot topic, but it did not scare them. at most, they just reminded each other as a joke.

what is even more chilling is that their perspective is the live perspective behind the stolen camera. that is to say, while the blogger shadow is still searching and removing the camera, there is a group of people watching in real time on the other side of the camera.

this social news was also broadcast live to these groups in advance in this form.

the so-called "dismantling" and "dropping" are their jargons, which means that the hidden camera has been discovered or dismantled and can no longer be used for viewing.

corresponding to this is the "replacement" - when the stolen live camera purchased within the monthly subscription cannot be logged in, the criminals who organized the channel will reissue a camera address with a similar location. they may even reinstall and activate a new one at the original location.

the word "channel" used here inevitably makes people feel a little nauseous. they regard secretly filming and live-streaming other people's privacy as a pastime, just like watching tv at home and changing channels with a remote control.

just like the psychopath in the movie "peeping tom", he hides in the dark corners under countless surveillance monitors and gets morbid pleasure from illegally exploiting the privacy and sexual value of others.

the movie voyeur

in their criminal industry chain of live-streaming and secretly filming hotels, there is a contempt chain for "stations", and the quality of the "stations" will directly affect the price and transaction rate.

for example, hidden cameras that live stream in places such as "around university towns" and "couple hotels" are often used as promotional selling points by these channels and are labeled as "new channels", "good channels" or "classic channels".

when it comes to holidays, weekends, and the start of university semesters, when hotel occupancy rates increase significantly, they are like sharks in the sea that smell blood, and they will frantically promote and sell on the channels. when others book rooms, they open stores.

not only do the innocent people who are secretly filmed have their emotions and physical privacy watched by hundreds or thousands of people without their knowledge, but after being watched, all their privacy, dignity, gender values, social identity, and even professional information, physical defects, and family scandals will be classified and packaged into recorded works with obscene titles and put on the channel for further monetization.

whether it's a "200-pound fat man" or a "good-looking couple", they will be stuffed into the 20,000+ secretly filmed hotel videos and become a member.

in the criminal chain of hotel secret filming and live streaming, neither humans nor all civilized cognition based on humans can escape being packaged as illegal goods coated with yellow waste.

homosexual minorities have not escaped the fate of being photographed and objectified.the hotel's hidden camera playback channel even has a separate tab for the gay community. of course, women are the biggest victims.

the most frightening thing is that through this black link of the hotel's secret live broadcast, we can see their vicious methods that are difficult to guard against.

the cameras used by these criminals are extremely small, their working methods are covert, and their installation methods are tricky, making it difficult for ordinary people to detect them. some of them even oftenpower is drawn through the room card. the room will automatically go offline when no one is staying in the room and will automatically go live when someone enters the room.it's so cunning to the extreme.

and those who buy these illegal channels,with just one command or one password, you can switch between multiple illegal devices in multiple locations at will.

a chat record in which a channel organizer shows off a deal

how high-definition are the cameras they use to secretly film? well, many of them can directly zoom in on the live broadcast and see the information on the mobile phone screens of people in the room.

even if you sleep in the hotel with your clothes on all night, it's still chilling to think about hundreds of people secretly watching you playing with your phone.

just like what mr. fan said, "oh no! it's hard to guard against." the general consumers are in the open, while the hotel thieves and criminals are in the dark. faced with this privacy and security threat that surrounds us invisibly, many netizens are even forced to take some extreme measures.

using a mobile game assistant to check the number of terminals or turning off the lights and scanning the room with an infrared pen are not enough to clear everyone's doubts. some people have already suggested that everyone bring a tent when staying in a hotel.

some netizens even said that they were just going to give up and that in the future when they enter a hotel room they will just shout, "please blur my face," and leave the rest to fate.

the matrix

jokes are jokes, self-mockery is self-mockery. but one thing is certain - protecting and fighting for personal privacy is the law, and any behavior that offends personal privacy or even profits from it is illegal. not to mention the large-scale sale of pornographic products, which is a criminal act that challenges the law.

one consensus is that “the law will never give in to lawlessness.”

as public opinion has been paying attention to the problem of hotel voyeurism in recent days, more and more professionals and social media have given a lot of constructive suggestions, from the perspective of personal prevention, as well as from the perspective of industry regulation and crime prevention.

for example, some people have begun to call on hotels and homestays to promote this kind of anti-theft camera socket seal

we believe that since this trending search has brought the black industry chain of hotel voyeurism into the spotlight, we will definitely find a way to eradicate it. what needs to be judged by law should be dealt with by law, and what needs to be condemned by morality should be dealt with by morality.

as for the hundreds of thousands of viewers who hide in those channels and enjoy exploiting other people's privacy and sexual exploitation, i would like to quote a famous editorial after the dust settled on south korea's "nth room incident".

“everyone who’s having fun in the room is complicit.”