SurveillanceSaver (images above), one of the links listed at the bottom of 2.4Ghz which I posted about yesterday, is a screen saver which randomly loads a video stream from one of over 1000 webcams world wide.

The project started as an experiment within my dissertation about a “Reality Filtering System” at Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics. While searching for “remote eyes” a DIGG article about finding Axis network cameras via Google led to the quick development of a simple OS X screen saver showing that images [sic] randomly. The results were impressive and addictive. The screen saver showed live images of streets and buildings but also surprising images of russian [sic] internet cafes, hotel lobbies, server rooms, barns with little pigs, etc. It came out that the images of a hundreds of these surveillance cameras were not protected accidently [sic].