Former NSA Contractor Makes Surveillance Proof Font
Can our font keep our privacy? Well Former NSA contractor Sang Mun thinks so. After Edward Snowden's leak of NSA classified files Mun was asked to work on something to keep documents online safe and unhackable. He started making a typeface that wouldn't be readable by scanning softwares. Either by the NSA (or any other government agency) or a lone hacker. After he tried he first couple times to scan the typeface it either gave little away or nothing at all. To make the font he used countless hours of drawing softwares and different types of patterns. The four fonts he used as the final product are; Camo, False, Noise, and Xed. He used these because it was unreadable to a computer's vision.
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