Introducing the NSA-Proof Crypto-Font 259
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.'"
Oh that Sang Mun (Score:1, Funny)
I heard he's quite the cunning linguist!
Re:Easy to crack? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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really want to give the NSA fits? (Score:3, Funny)
hey this has given me an idea for the perfect secure font...every char is a blank.
Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Easy to crack? (Score:2, Funny)
Can't you see that he wrote with the obfuscated font?
Re:Is this a joke? (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, you get better encryption when you type unicode on Slashdot..
Re:Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
That's all I've got to say about that.
Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? (Score:4, Funny)
Just don't tell the NSA where to download the font or they may be able to teach Mr OCR how to read it.
Re:Familiar with image recognition at all? (Score:5, Funny)