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Hack Your Friends© Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

Hack Your Friends

Play as a friendly-neighborhood-hacker to help your friends & family gain access to their profiles by extracting personal information from publicly viewable content on their social media accounts.

Play Hack Your Friends

Gameplay

  • Follow scripted communication with NPC’s through inbuilt phone UI for instructions and clues
  • Search public “Friendbook” profiles
  • Enter the correct password and email into “login” UI to win

  • Hack Your Friends 1 © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
  • Hack Your Friends 2 © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
  • Hack Your Friends 3 © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan
  • Hack Your Friends 4 © Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan

Focus on Digital Literacy

Oversharing

Showcases how much information people are sharing with the whole world, without realising the potential dangers.
 

Insecure Passwords

Highlights how insecure generic, repetitive, and/or common passwords can be.
 

Reviews Privacy

Advises on reviewing privacy settings and what to consider when creating passwords.
 


The Team

Deepanjali Sarna © Deepanjali Sarna

Deepanjali Sarna

Felix Mundschenk © Felix Mundschenk

Felix Mundschenk

Mitesh Kumar V © Mitesh Kumar V

Mitesh Kumar V

Stefan Wolf © Stefan Wolf

Stefan Wolf

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