A designer who previously worked with the NSA has created legible fonts that he claims cannot be detected by optical character recognition software,Kyle VanHemert of Wired reports.It's like those boxes where you prove you're not a robot, but used to communicate with other humans. Sang Mun, who worked with America's signals intelligence agency during his time in the Korean military, said he was inspired by Google's attempt to mine almost all of the data that comes its way.
“Hearing about Google Glass — a 24/7 ubiquitous panopticon — the Google Goggles app and its new image search engine, and Google’s rigorous process of scanning every existing book ... All these software algorithms are programmed to extract every bit of information out of every kind of input,” Mun told Wired. The typeface, dubbed , exploits weakness in recognition software to print messages that cannot be electronically parsed. Mun also claims that a message using a combination of the four available fonts could be used to stifle a camera peeking over a shoulder.
After a year spent researching and creating, Mun released the type as a in 2012. https://www.businessinsider.com/zxx-fonts-that-google-cant-read-2013-9#ixzz2g6zuzsOL
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