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Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font
Daniel_Stuckey writes "At a moment when governments and corporations alike are hellbent on snooping through your personal digital messages, it'd sure be nice if there was a font their dragnets couldn't decipher. So Sang Mun built one. Sang, a recent graduate from the Rhode Island Schoold of Design, has unleashed ZXX — a 'disruptive typeface' that he says is much more difficult to the NSA and friends to decrypt. He's made it free to download on his website, too. 'The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them?' he writes. 'I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software (whether used by a government agency or a lone hacker) — misdirecting information or sometimes not giving any at all. It can be applied to huge amounts of data, or to personal correspondence.' He named it after the Library of Congress's labeling code ZXX, which archivists employ when they find a book that contains 'no linguistic content.'"
I heard he's quite the cunning linguist!
That is because you are like stupid.
This would be totally rad to make signs with the next time hipsters wear the V masks and have one of those "Occupy Mall Street" things again.
Undecipherable my ass.
He's from a school of design, give him a little slack for not understanding how computers work...
I wish I had a good sig, but all the good ones are copyrighted
hey this has given me an idea for the perfect secure font...every char is a blank.
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
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He's from a school of design, give him a little slack for not understanding how computers work...
No doubt he uses that font for all his email, having recently switched from comic sans.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Can't you see that he wrote with the obfuscated font?
Yes, you get better encryption when you type unicode on Slashdot..
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
The beast at Tanagra. Kiteo, his eyes closed. Temba, his arms wide/open. Shaka, when the walls fell. Temba, at rest.
That's all I've got to say about that.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I want to know why he thinks the NSA prints out each webpage and email and then runs it through OCR.
???
This is government we're talking about here. It's a kickback to the paper, printer, and scanner companies who contributed so much to some campaigns during the last election cycle!
Sokath, his eyes opened.
Just don't tell the NSA where to download the font or they may be able to teach Mr OCR how to read it.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/