Hard Drives from Snowden’s Destroyed Laptop Displayed at UK Museum
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Credit: Adina Tovy/Lonely Planet Images/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Victoria and Albert Museum has on display, among other items, hard drives from Edward Snowden’s destroyed laptop that contained documents leaked to The Guardian newspaper as part of an exhibition on the role of public institutions in contemporary life.
A museum press release says the exhibit, titled “All of This Belongs to You,” will be made up of four installations, three displays, two online commissions and a series of events. Each project “will test the capacity of the V&A as a public entity and what it means to be responsible for a national public collection, opening the museum up as a stage for debate and discussion as much as a space for the appreciation of objects.”
Snowden’s laptop was ordered destroyed by the U.K. government, the museum notes. The hard drives from the computer will be displayed alongside such objects as the CryptoPhone 500, a secure military-grade mobile phone, an Onion Pi router, which enables users to browse the Internet anonymously, and a selfie stick with a remote shutter release.
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