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Case 02/02. Not a pipe ↔ not a bank

Не трубка ↔ не банк

Art

Artist
René Magritte
Work
The Treachery of Images
Year
1929
Where
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Under a painted pipe Magritte wrote “Ceci n'est pas une pipe” — “This is not a pipe”. He is right: it is a picture of a pipe.

Code

interface spoofing

A copy of a bank's screen is not the bank. Trust the address and the app you installed yourself, not the picture.

Action

Reach your bank only through your own app or bookmark.

Заходите в банк только через своё приложение или закладку.

The label in the room

The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.

“This is not a pipe,” Magritte wrote under a pipe. A copy of a bank's screen is not a bank either. Reach your bank only through your own app or bookmark.

«Это не трубка», — написал Магритт под трубкой. Копия экрана банка тоже не банк: это картинка, за которой стоит мошенник. Заходите в банк только через своё приложение или закладку.

SHA-256 of the Russian label text b9578aba069c7179c53fa415f32b1b090b635aa00365127a45d11caaa7ace7ef

In the room

A text panel with the quotation and our own line; a reproduction only with permission

Rights

Quotation only

In copyright until 2038; quoted as text, no reproduction

Sources

  1. lacma.org