Welcome. PhotoSwap is an application for the iPhone that allows you to send an anonymous photo and receive an anonymous photo back. The service is great for upbeat, healthy, family-fun photo sharing, but managed to become a cesspool for photo debauchery. I don't know about you, but I love cesspools.

What I found was that after taking many anonymous photos, you would sometimes get some pretty interesting photos back. I wanted more. Thus, I created a man-in-the-middle service on PhotoSwap.

It works like this: I have a program that connects to the PhotoSwap service (after sniffing out how it worked on my iPhone). It takes a random picture of mine and sends it out. Once I get a picture back, I then send that picture out into the ether. I get another picture back, I now send that...essentially, I'm quickly sending/receiving everyone's photos. I get most, if not all, of the pictures floating through the service, and without disruption, send them back out so another anonymous person can receive them.

Oh, and I also get their GPS coordinates, but they probably didn't know that (iPhone GPS coordinates, not router coordinates). Thousands of photos are available in the gallery below. GPS coordinates removed to protect the guilty. Enjoy.

View the entire gallery here (some photos are NOT SAFE FOR WORK)

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developed by samy kamkar, 01/07/2010