Font "ZXX" which makes text analysis difficult in OCR etc.

Confidential system "PRISM"Although it is discovered that American intelligence agencies used to refer to personal information by using information, do not collect data in these information agenciesOCRFont which is difficult to analyze text withZXX",ButRhode Island Design SchoolIt was made by Sang Mun who is a graduate of

Making Democracy Legible: A Defiant Typeface - The Gradient - Walker Art Center
http://blogs.walkerart.org/design/2013/06/20/sang-mun-defiant-typeface-nsa-privacy/

Introducing the NSA-Proof Font | Motherboard
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/introducing-the-nsa-proof-font

Sang's font "ZXX"NSA (National Security Agency)It was created to hinder the collection of information on organizations intercepting personal information like. ZXX has six different fonts, Sans, Bold, Camo, False, Noise, and Xed, and by mixing them, it interferes with text analysis in OCR and so on.

In fact, what kind of font is ZXX can be understood by looking at the following movie.



Sans


Bold


Sans and Bold are normal fonts like this.


"Camo" covering letters with a pattern like camouflage



False


This font is clearly visible The large character part is a decoration only, small letters that stick there are characters that you really want to display, so feeling hard to read without knowing the law. In the case of the image below, it looks like "TLYYOVWBTLLP" appears to be written, but what I intend to display is "GOBBLEDYGOOK".


"Noise" font that dots are scattered like a noise on top of characters.


"Xed" is overlapped with zigzag lines on the letters, making reading difficult.


Here is the result of trying what kind of notation will be actually using ZXX. In the case of the word "KEEP" ......


Individual fonts got disjointed and it became difficult to read.


In the case of a little sentence ......


It is a state of harassment.


Many hackers point out that this font is not very useful as an encryption method, but Sang himself also does not think that this ZXX font will be active for a long time as such a tool, "This ZXX font will not completely solve the problem we are facing now, but it will be a big problem," he says.

Font isZXX websiteIt is open to the public,Direct downloading of uploaded files to Dropboxis.