The wreckage of a destroyed MacBook Air, coming from the British newspaper The Guardian, his standing in the British Victoria & Albert Museum. The laptop was in August 2013 in job of the GCHQ destroyed, because there are Snowden documents on the hard drive were.
The remnants of the laptop to make part of the Ways to be Secret section of the exhibition All of This Belongs To You, which can be seen in the London-based Victoria & Albert Museum. In the exhibition is the tension exposed between the desire for privacy on the one hand, and the ‘obsession’ of the public with social media on the other side. Also like the custodians, the question calls who exactly is the owner of your data.
In 2013 was on display MacBook Air in the basement of The Guardian taken care of, after the British newspaper had refused to the Snowden documents, that the hands had to give back to the British government. Two ‘security experts’ of the GCHQ watched, among others, the hard drive of the laptop was scrapped. Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, called the demolition of the laptop at the time: ‘a senseless case of symbolism’ of the British government, because he has the secret service had already let you know that there are several copies were made of the Snowden-documents.
Next to the wreckage of the Apple laptop have the conservators also other privacy related hardware in the showcases placed. There is an Onion Pi router to see anonymous on the Tor network surfing, as well as a selfie-stick and a CryptoPhone 500, a device that allows encrypted calls can be made.
