User-friendly cameras

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This cute little dog playfully snapping at its owner, who, due to his stupidity, deserves to be devoured in one bite, will help us understand another "accident," less common but almost more serious than the one in the previous post, which is encountered by unwary people wandering the lands of the internet without knowing where to turn.
I've only posted this photo here, in which the owner is unrecognizable, but I've also seen many others in which various people are clearly visible. I've also seen other types: office pranks, company dinners, games with friends, but also less harmless ones, and I'm sure that in many cases the protagonists would be very angry knowing that their photos have ended up in the hands of dogs and pigs.
Because they don't know I saw them and that anyone can see them.

Nowadays, almost all photos are digital, and even the beast in the picture was captured with a digital camera. The photos were then downloaded to a computer, and digital cameras are user-friendly. Just connect them via USB and insert the usual CD-ROM that installs a program to download and manage the photos.
Nowadays, most digital cameras adhere to a standard invented to make life easier for management software and also for the user. The standard consists of creating a folder called DCIM, in which other folders are created for the various cameras. So, inside the DCIM folder, we would have, for example, a CASIO folder, or a CANON folder, etc., with a progressive number in front to divide the various downloads (102CANON, 103CANON, 104CANON, etc.). This is where photos end up, typically in JPEG format, and also videos, usually in AVI format.

So far, so good. If the DCIM folder is on your personal computer or even on a web server outside of the web space, but if, for some reason, it ends up inside the web space and the usual idiot administrator forgets to block the search engine spiders, especially Google, the folders and all the photos are indexed and available to anyone capable of searching for them.
But why would this folder end up in a server's web space? There are many reasons: so that friends can view photos from yesterday's game at home and download them, for example.

Finding them is very easy. You can try it yourself. Just type index.of.dcim (index dot of dot dcim with dots or spaces) into Google. About fifty links will pop up, but not many because this incident isn't very common, and some of them aren't photo folders, but simply articles like this one.
However, if after clicking the link you see a blank page titled "Index of /DCIM" and two links underneath that say "Parent directory" and "DCIM," you're in the right place. Click DCIM and you'll find a similar page with links like 100CASIO or 102CANON or 101FUJI, etc.
Click on one of these and you'll see the names of the images. Simply click each one to view the photo in your browser.
Congratulations. You're well on your way to becoming a master voyeur.

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