Think all those emails and pictures you are sending with your new camera/pda phone are hilarious? Well apparently hackers think they are too. Before you take embarassing and potentially incriminating photos of yourself or your celeb friends, keep in mind that others may be watching too:

The hacker’s access to the T-Mobile gave him more than just Secret Service documents. A friend of Jacobsen’s says that prior to his arrest, Jacobsen provided him with digital photos that he claimed celebrities had snapped with their cell phone cameras. “He basically just said there was flaw in the way the cell phone servers were set up,” says William Genovese, a 27-year-old hacker facing unrelated charges for allegedly selling a copy of Microsoft’s leaked source code for $20.00. Genovese provided SecurityFocus with an address on his website featuring what appears to be grainy candid shots of Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine a world where everyone has a camera on them at all times. Sting certainly found out while he was vacationing at a high class skiing resort:

“Sting had been staying with his family at luxury hotel Cristallo in Cortina d’Ampezzo, in the northeastern mountains of Italy, but after a few days he left the noble ski station to escape the harassment of the amateur paparazzi.

The daily Corriere della Sera quotes Sting’s snowboard teacher Alberto Belfi saying: “People were continuously taking pictures of him with their cell phones. They were rude, placing themselves without asking and without consideration in front of him at the restaurant or in the line to the skilift to get a close-up”.

I have seen the camphone future and it is an orwellian one indeed.

As the old ad in Soma magazine once said: “In the future you will dress for surveillance.”