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Not sure if I get the point of this? On digital documents it makes no difference at all and if the NSA (or whoever else) really wanted to digitalise printed doc
by tazjin 13y ago
Not sure if I get the point of this? On digital documents it makes no difference at all and if the NSA (or whoever else) really wanted to digitalise printed documents written in this font they could surely just make some minor modifications to their OCR to support this.
Not to mention that the kind of OCR software available to secret services is probably much better than what is on the consumer market.
- tbatterii 13y agoI was wondering if the font was more an artistic statement rather than an actual solution.
- ctidd 13y agoFrom the article: Sang has no illusions that even a clever cryptographic font—which you can use in email messages to shield them from snoops and font-recognition bots—will remain encoded for long. They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Rather, he views them as an awareness-raising measure. "This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."
- ginsong 13y ago>They're not meant to be long-term tools with which to combat the NSA. Even if you could beat the NSA you still have the UK, Canada, AU, NZ, Russia, China etc. Cool project though.
- C1D 13y agoNot only will the font not fully solve the problems everyone is facing but it will not solve anything!
- mhb 13y agoTFA is helpful in addressing your inquiry: "This project will not fully solve the problems we are facing now," he writes, " but hopefully will raise some peculiar questions."