Case 01/03. Book ↔ leak
Книга ↔ утечка
Art
- Artist
- Aram Bartholl
- Work
- Forgot Your Password?
- Year
- 2013
Bartholl printed eight volumes of 4.7 million passwords leaked from LinkedIn and invited visitors to find their own. Our book follows his idea, built from the public RockYou training list.
Code
password leaks
In 2009 RockYou stored 32 million passwords in plain text, and they were stolen. Since then the list is the first thing any attacker tries.
Action
Look for your password in the book. Found it? Change it today.
Найдите свой пароль в книге. Нашли — смените сегодня.
The label in the room
The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.
Bartholl printed a book of leaked passwords. Ours is built from the public RockYou list, the first thing any attacker tries. Look for your password. Found it? Change it today.
Бартолл напечатал книгу из утёкших паролей. Наша собрана из публичного списка RockYou: его первым пробует любой взломщик. Найдите в ней свой пароль. Нашли — смените сегодня.
SHA-256 of the Russian label text c301a9e9570a9d06d8792fa8391b91c452a005abdd2f1be8278ef904c98a7e61
In the room
Three volumes on lecterns and a wall table of cracking times (our own calculation after the Hive Systems 2025 method), with a QR code to the original
Rights
Our own object