[Update] Fear Inc. Bulletin: Did you just smoke a cigarette in Times Square?

Or did you just sneak past a red truck in the rain in St. Petersburg, Russia?

Webcams have been a bit under reported in the daily be afraid news circus. Which is understandable given the recent camera focus and media focus on the British royal bottom.

No, we are not giving you the link. Go search the German Bild Zeitung yourself, you ass, oh, pardon, you bottom.

Over the not quite two years this blog has been active, we have tried hard to do some hard hitting reporting. We probably failed at it, but who cares.

And then we saw the webcams of Ballermann, the German nickname for the resort area on the island of Mallorca, Spain. You'll get a fun post on the resort later,  but today, we deal with the webcams only.

Our devious TheEditor asked: "What if you went drinking on Mallorca after telling your wife you are on a business trip to Russia? And what if your wife came across the cam and saw you boozing on the beach?"

To which our equally devious subEditor responded: "Someone must have done a movie with a scene like this, probably a Las Vegas cam, though, because of better image quality. Don't you think some spy novel could adapt that?"

What do you mean?

For instance, you have a valiant American hero doing some hero thing in Afghanistan when he realizes all his communications are not secure. Then his wits save him when he recalls he showed his teenage son the Afghanistan webcam nicknamed Goat Cam, and his son was fascinated and spent hours each day staring at goats, and he makes his way to the Goat Cam and signals to his son that he needs help. Hero saved.

Brilliant. And now you just made all the world's intelligence agencies save the complete video feeds of all live cams on the planet forever, you idiot!

Oh, sorry about that. 

[Update June 1]  Ah, well: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/nsa-sammelt-offenbar-millionen-von-fotos-fuer-gesichtserkennung-a-972715.html
Do they use the visa database? We bet our Susan B. dollar on yes. If we are wrong, let us know, and we'll ship the Susan B. - shipping and handling on us this time.