The state of the Brave New World:

Man in Germany Foils Burglary in Brazil

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/
2006/12/13/financial/f102507S62.DTL

"Businessman Joao Pedro Wettlauser was in Cologne, Germany, on Sunday
when he received an alert on his phone informing him that someone had
entered his vacation house in Guaruja, 54 miles south of Sao Paulo,
police said.

He quickly turned on his laptop and, thanks to security cameras
connected to the Internet, was able to see a tattooed man stuffing
goods into trash bags..."