NEW MUU 2014 - Artist at Work

28. November bis 17. Dezember 2014 MUU Gallery / MUU Cable, Lönnrotinkatu 33, 00180 Helsinki, Finland

Andreas Zingerle, Universitätsassistent bei Zeitbasierte und interaktive Medien, und Linda Kronman beteiligen sich an der Ausstellung.

Gezeigt wir die Arbeit "Password: * * * * * *".

Password: * * * * * * reveals popular email-passwords of internet scammers. The passwords are arranged typographically in six stars, each star containing most popular word combination with the words: ‘good’, ‘love’, ‘money’, ‘mother’, ‘jesus’, ‘bless’. Email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook are used by scammers to create fake identities and in combination with fictional narratives contact potential victims to lure them into advance fee payments. Vigilante anti-scam communities try to jam the scammers working practices by using storytelling and social engineering techniques as psychological manipulation to gain the trust of the scammer. By collecting and combining apparently non-relevant information they try to receive sensitive data to be able to obtain access to the scammers email passwords. Once access to a scammers email account is established, the  highjacked account is searched for victims, forged documents, credit card numbers, gang communication or other sensitive information to report the scammers. The passwords in the artwork are collected from anti-scam community databases.

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