{"id":2959,"date":"2013-06-26T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:17:21","slug":"a-typeface-designed-to-thwart-nsa-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/26\/a-typeface-designed-to-thwart-nsa-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Typeface Designed To Thwart NSA Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Worried about spying eyes? Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a typeface created specifically to fool the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prying computers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Long before Edward Snowden leaked the Prism documents<\/a>, Sang Mun served two years of mandatory service for the the Korean military, gathering intelligence under the NSA. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose to publish any classified documents, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encouraging a counter-surveillance revolution in his own way: by designing ZXX<\/a> a typeface that thwarts prying eyes.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sometimes these ideas about privacy can feel large and abstract to the average person,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mun tells Co.Design. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ZXX might bridge the disconnect between the supercomputers at Fort Meade and someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Microsoft Word at home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

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Worried about spying eyes? Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a typeface created specifically to fool the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prying computers. Long before Edward Snowden leaked the Prism documents, Sang Mun served two years of mandatory service for the the Korean military, gathering intelligence under the NSA. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose to publish any classified documents, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encouraging a counter-surveillance revolution … <\/p>\n

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