Designer sang mun creates font to fool the nsa by betsy isaacson in light of the recent revelations about the national security agencys secret surveillance programs, designer sang mun has created a font that cant be read by machines and has made it free for anyone to download. Zxx is a disruptive typeface designed by an exkorean intelligence officer to prevent automated text processing. Free zxx bold fonts free fonts search and download. Mun notes that the project is more of a provocation than a true security measure. The name zxx comes from the library of congress alpha3 iso 6392 codes for the representation of names of languages. I have become dedicated to researching ways to articulate our unfreedom and to continue the evolution of my own thinking about censorship, surveillance, and a free society, he explained to reason magazine, after releasing the font online in june. Download zxx a collection of special font designs that will make it hard for tracking companies to. In a recent post on walker art centers gradient blog, developer sang mun himself a former nsa contractor said, i drew six different cuts sans, bold, camo, false, noise and xed to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way. The font is named after the library of congress code, zxx, which labels a document as containing no linguistic content. How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them. We have a huge free dvd selection that you can download or stream.
Former nsa contractor develops font to combat government. Sang mun himself expresses his goal the following way. Lab, an organization of artists and engineers that from 2007 and 2015 worked to enrich the public domain through the research and development of creative technologies and the media. Zxx is an advocacy platform in a font, as well as a turnkey tool to.
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Creator of the latin text typeface lancet wounded 2012 and of the grunge experimental typeface zxx 2012, free. Sang, a recent graduate from the rhode island schoold of design risd, has unleashed zxxa a disruptive typeface that he says is much more difficult to the nsa and. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. Jun 24, 20 sang mun, a former contractor with the us national security agency nsa, hopes that his zxx font will strike a blow for internet freedom making it harder for the authorities and hackers to spy upon our communications.
Zxx, as the typeface is called, comes in four flavors, each exploiting a. The lang attribute is a hint for web browsers and software readers html scrapers to choose the content language. For mun, who attended rhode island school of design, the zxx project. Listen to xxzxx soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create reading. I decided to create a typeface that would be unreadable by text scanning software. Sang mun served two years of mandatory service for the korean military. Zxx is available free to download to use in your own statement against surveillance. Shes a journalism reader, writer, photographer, videographer, data visualizer and general doer. See more ideas about lettering, lettering fonts, lettering alphabet.
Pornhub is the most complete and revolutionary porn tube site. This typeface was designed specifically to be unreadable by most automated text scanning software. It took mun a year to research and create the typeface, which he released last year as a free download. Named zxx after the library of congresss threeletter code for books found to contain no linguistic content, the weird typeface was designed by sang mun to be unreadable to very specific type. The typeface was developed by the seoulbased designer sang mun for his final project at the rhode island school of design. The goal is to make the contents of a document unreadable by text scanning software while still being intelligible to a human reader. We offer streaming porn videos, downloadable dvds, photo albums, and the number 1 free sex community on the. New font is designed to foil ocr apps would also make a good. Zxxs profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. New font is designed to foil ocr apps would also make a. This new experiment in obfuscation fonts is the work of sang mun, a recent graduate of the rhode island school of design. I offered the typeface as a free download in hopes that as many people. Alpha3 iso 6392 codes for the representation of names of languages.
I drew six different cuts sans, bold, camo, false, noise and xed to generate endless permutations, each font designed to thwart machine intelligences in a different way. Over the course of a year, i researched and created zxx, a disruptive typeface which takes its name from the library of congress listing of threeletter codes denoting which language a book is written in. Jun 23, 20 named zxx after the library of congresss threeletter code for books found to contain no linguistic content, the weird typeface was designed by sang mun to be unreadable to very specific type. Rebirth of the enzo how the zr auto ferrari zxx came to be. For me, zizeks words are even more potent in light of recent news about domestic surveillance programs as a former contractor with the us national security agency nsa, these issues hit especially close to home. Zxxeverywhere nsa proof font tool chrome web store.
The value zxx means the content has no linguistic content but it will still pass the validator as having included the lang attribute. Muns design exemplifies a piece of the future that, like many other works in the exhibition, is deeply rooted in the present and something that could take on new meanings and forms as time goes on. Designer sang mun creates font to fool the nsa huffpost. 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. Post jobs, find pros, and collaborate commissionfree in our professional marketplace. Disrupt nsa surveillance with this typeface hyperallergic. Over the course of a year, i researched and created zxx, a disruptive typeface. Heres how the font designer, sang mun, explains his project. The typeface was created by sang mun, a designer who also spent time as a. Jun 27, 20 zxx is available free to download to use in your own statement against surveillance. The pornhub team is always updating and adding more porn videos every day. Designers imagine the future in philadelphia museum of art. Sang mun made a typeface thats unparsable to computers, but legible to.
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Nov 07, 2019 zxx created by sang mun was designed to be interpreted only by humans and undetectable by artificial intelligence and other text scanning software. Sang mun a concerned global citizen we dont have any change log information for zxx 1. And thats really what it is, as mun acknowledges that the project is really more about a visual message of. Todays innovations could be redundant in five years says. Sang mun, a former contractor with the us national security agency nsa, hopes that his zxx font will strike a blow for internet freedom making it harder for the authorities and hackers to spy upon our communications. Sang mun s zxx fonts most typographers prize legibility and clarity of message above all other design consideration. The disruptive typeface zxx takes its name directly from the library of congress listing of threeletter codes meant to specify what language a text is written in.
Zxx type specimen photograph we feel free because we lack the language to. Zxx is a free font, and anyone can download it on the projects website. Zxx is available free to download to use in your own statement. We live life overloaded with extensive impalpable information that is gathered. A typeface designed to thwart spying computers gizmodo. At first glance, zxx is just a decorative typeface designed in a style of wellknown captcha.
See more ideas about geometric deer, chevron wall art and vector animation. So the south korean designer sang mun is a rarity, as his font is designed to be obscure. The project focuses on the growing problem of privacy on the internet. The name zxx comes from a system the library of congress uses to denote a books written. Zxx type specimen photograph we feel free because we lack the language to articulate our unfreedom. Young and relentless zxx, born in macedonia, raised on the outskirts of chicago. Shes a journalism reader, writer, photographer, videographer, data visualizer and.
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