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Apple Store sicks Secret service on Camera Artist Spy

July 10th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

An artist by the name of Kyle McDonald installed a program on the computers in two NY Apple stores that would automatically take a photo every minute. Well with all that fun in place the secret service has taken his PC.

McDonald’s project was to capture people’s expressions as they stare at computers, a subject he had first explored in a recording he made of his own computer time over two days using the same program.

“I thought maybe we could see ourselves doing this we would think more about our computers and how we’re using them,” he says.
Over the course of the project, McDonald set up roughly 100 Apple store computers to call his servers every minute. That’s a lot of network traffic, and he learned that Apple monitors traffic in its stores when he received a photo from a Cupertino computer of what appeared to be an Apple technician. The technician had apparently traced the traffic to the site McDonald used to upload the program to Apple Store computers — and installed it himself.

The secret services was said to have taken 2 of his PC’s an ipod and all of his flash drives and told him that Apple would be contacting him shortly. Now he is entangled in a possible computer fraud case however McDonald feels he did nothing wrong by doing this art experiment. I am sure the courts will let him know if he was in his rights to do this art work.

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