Case 02/04. Horse ↔ trojan
Конь ↔ троян
Art
- Artist
- The myth of the Trojan War
- Work
- The Trojan Horse
- Year
- antiquity
The Greeks left a wooden horse at the walls of Troy as a gift. The Trojans dragged it inside themselves.
Code
trojan
A trojan is a program you run yourself because it looks useful. In his 1983 Turing lecture Ken Thompson showed you cannot fully trust code you did not write yourself.
Action
Never plug in a USB stick you found.
Не вставляйте в компьютер найденные флешки.
The label in the room
The same hash is printed at the foot of the label. If they match, nobody changed the text.
The Trojans dragged the horse inside themselves. A trojan is a program you run yourself because it looks like a gift. Never plug in a USB stick you found.
Троянцы сами втащили коня в город. Троян — программа, которую вы запускаете сами, потому что она выглядит подарком. Не вставляйте в компьютер найденные флешки.
SHA-256 of the Russian label text f2eff1ae7c686eadd8bbb0e60b049dd3c794969e7e6d0be0412ec336f3a8f5dd
In the room
A cardboard horse about 1.5 m tall with a hatch; inside, a USB “payload”
Rights
Our own object