Friday, July 8, 2011
Art Secret Service Confiscates Brooklyn Artist's Computers Over Tumblr Project
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- People glaring at a computer, from People Staring at Computers.
Last month Brooklyn-based artist Kyle McDonald installed an app on about 100 computers in the Soho and Meatpacking District Apple Stores that automatically took a photo every 60 seconds for three days, resulting in the hilarious (and still online after a brief outage) Tumblr People Staring at Computers. That project was apparently so funny that yesterday the humorless Secret Service visited McDonald and confiscated his computer.
Yesterday McDonald tweeted: "@secretservice just stopped by to investigate peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com and took my laptop. please assume they're reading any emails you send me." And then: "warrant says peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com violates 18 USC section 1030. if you're familiar w this law, contact me. i just asked @EFF for advice too." In the meantime, the site was down earlier this afternoon and has since reappeared, but here's how the application worked.
(Eyeteeth)
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