A Secret Service

http://www.mediamatic.net/id/9254 2009-12-16T16:32:09+01:00 A Secret Service submit your password at

<a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a> A project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes. Mediamatic and Sasker Scheerder take SAFETY very SERIOUSLY. The increasingly popular exchange of sensitive digital information demands a revision of security measures. An alternative, designed by Sasker Scheerder, is being offered at Mediamatic.

Hidden in public, A Secret Service offers a valuable service to computer users dealing with the problem of password management; and you reading this are very likely to be one of them. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/058/9342-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/9342/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> When you memorize your passwords you're going to forget them at some point: when you write them on a piece of paper you're either going to lose it or someone else will see it, so this is UNSAFE. When you store the in an encrypted file on your computer it is not only unsafe but also you still need another password to open this file, which not only principally FEELS BAD but is philosophically still NOT A SOLUTION. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/623/426-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005 - Mediamatic.net" href="/426/en/a-secret-service-mediamatic-exhibition-with">A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005</a> A Secret Service invites you to submit your passwords and a timestamp for storage on the Secret Service website, <a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a>. It is then translated (text-to-speech), automated and broadcasted via webradio and live at Mediamatic Groundfloor every hour on the time of your choice. Because nobody can know that this is your password or what the purpose is, this seemingly paradoxical way of storing something very secret and intimate in public space can be considered completely safe. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/384/9321-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/9321/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> To guarantee the absolute safety of your information, Mediamatic has taken advanced security measures to protect the server on which your passwords will be saved. You are invited to place your most sensitive information in our care ( <a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a> ) and take a look at Mediamatic's exhibition space where the safety of these measures are on display. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/649/8554-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/8554/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-200.9742.html">Opening night pictures</a> Location: Mediamatic Ground Floor Open from the 16th of July through the 14th of August 2005 Post CS building, Oosterdokskade 5, Amsterdam A Secret Service geef je wachtwoord in bewaring bij:

<a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a> Een project van Sasker Scheerder ism Olaf Matthes

<h6>Veiligheid ten top</h6> Sasker Scheerder en Mediamatic namen veiligheid zeer serieus. De toenemende uitwisseling van gevoelige digitale informatie vraagt om een andere kijk op beveiligingsstrategieën. Openlijk verborgen in het publieke domein levert A Secret Service een onmisbare dienst aan computergebruikers die te maken hebben met wachtwoord-management problemen. De kans dat u één van hen bent is niet gering. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/9342/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/058/9342-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/9342/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> Wanneer je je wachtwoorden uit het hoofd leert, ga je ze vergeten. Als je ze ergens opschrijft kunnen ze zoekraken of kan iemand anders ze lezen. Dus dat is ONVEILIG. Wanneer je ze in een gecodeerd bestand op je computer opslaat heb je alsnog een ander wachtwoord nodig om de files te openen, wat niet alleen SLECHT VOELT maar filosofisch gezien ook GEEN OPLOSSING biedt. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/426/en/a-secret-service-mediamatic-exhibition-with"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/623/426-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005 - Mediamatic.net" href="/426/en/a-secret-service-mediamatic-exhibition-with">A Secret Service, Mediamatic exhibition with Sasker Scheerder, June 2005</a> A Secret Service nodigde u uit om uw wachtwoord in combinatie met een tijdsmarkering op te slaan op een website <a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a>. Dit wachtwoord werd vervolgens van tekst naar spraak vertaald, geautomatiseerd en ieder uur via webradio en live bij Mediamatic uitgezonden op een tijd van uw keuze. Omdat niemand wist dat het uw wachtwoord is en omdat niemand weet waarvoor het dient, kan op deze manier iets zeer geheims en intiems buitengewoon veilig opgeborgen worden in de publieke ruimte. <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/9321/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/384/9321-400-300.jpg" height="300" width="400" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/9321/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> Om de absolute veiligheid van uw informatie te kunnen garanderen had Mediamatic rondom de server waarop deze wachtwoorden werden opgeslagen uitgebreide veiligheidsmaatregelen genomen. <a href="http://www.asecretservice.org">asecretservice.org</a> <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/8554/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder"> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/649/8554-300-400.jpg" height="400" width="300" alt="" title="A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes" playable="1"/> </a><a title="Click to get a larger image - A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes - Mediamatic.net" href="/8554/en/a-secret-service-a-project-by-sasker-scheerder">A Secret Service, a project by Sasker Scheerder and Olaf Matthes</a> - 4.90982 52.3758 ARTEFACT event exhibition 1