Artist Aram Bartholl’s “Forgot Your Password?” is an eight-volume print edition collecting, in alphabetical order, all 4.7 million Linkedin passwords that leaked in 2012. Linkedin had stored the passwords in cleartext, which is a very, very bad idea. It will be shown at Munich’s Unpainted media art fair in January 2014.
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.
(via JWZ)