So Mung designed a typeface that can be deciphered by humans, but not by the optical character recognition software employed by spy agencies to rapidly scan billions of documents as they fly across the InterWebs. He’s also a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. During his two years in the Sourth Korean military, Mun worked as a contractor for the NSA, extracting information from intelligence intercepts. That’s the puzzle Sang Mun set out to solve. But what if we spoke in a language we could understand but they couldn’t? What if we wrote in a typeface we could read but would look like gibberish to the NSA’s massive supercomputers? Thanks to Edward Snowden and others, we know that the National Security Agency is listening.
