Forgot Your Password?

2013
book series, 8 volumes
hardcover
21 × 27 cm

In summer 2012 the social network LinkedIn.com got hacked and lost its whole user database. A few months later parts of the decrypted password list surfaced on the Internet. These eight volumes contain 4.7 million LinkedIn clear text user passwords printed in alphabetical order. Visitors are invited to look up their own password.

 

 

Exhibitions:

  • Infossphäre, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015
  • All Changes Saved, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, 2018
  • Gallery.Delivery, Gallery.Delivery, Berlin, 2018
  • A = Anonymity, Kampnagel, Hamburg, 2018
  • The Glass Room, Tacitical Tec, San Francisco, 2019
  • Data CTRL Centre, M17 Contemporary Art Center, Kiev, 2020
  • Glass Room - An exhibition by Tactical Tech, dbieb, Leeuwarden, 2021
  • Glass Room - An exhibition by Tactical Tech, OBA, Amsterdam, 2021
  • Museum of Cryptography, Museum of Cryptography, Moscow, 2021
  • The Glass Room, MOD, Adelaide, 2022
  • untitled (National Communications Museum), National Communications Museum, Melbourne, 2022
  • Singularity, C-Lab - Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, 2024

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