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07-12-2015, 02:12 PM
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What you type tells a story about who you are. At least that's what governments think. So much so that antiterrorist organizations like the NSA and the UK's GCHQ have developed lists of words that they believe a terrorist is likely to type.
If you type the flagged words and the government sees it, well, you may have been added to some list.
Now there's a tool that shows just how often some of these suspicious words pop up in everyday conversations. It comes in the form of a font.
Created by a Slovenian artist, Project Seen is a typeface that automatically flags all the trigger words used by international law-enforcement agencies
These trigger words were revealed back in 2013 as words that cause enforcement agencies to deem someone a potential terrorist. The list is currently growing and, in fact, may top 40,000 words.
Emil Kozole is the artist behind this project. He made Project Seen as part of his master's in communication design at Central Saint Martins University in London. Kozole explained that he wanted to make a masters project that somehow highlighted the fraught state of security in modern times.
"The biggest news of the summer was Snowden’s documents, where he exposed previously unknown practices of the NSA and British GCHQ," Kozole told me over Skype chat.
Read the rest here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-created-font-tells-nsa-153922939.html
What you type tells a story about who you are. At least that's what governments think. So much so that antiterrorist organizations like the NSA and the UK's GCHQ have developed lists of words that they believe a terrorist is likely to type.
If you type the flagged words and the government sees it, well, you may have been added to some list.
Now there's a tool that shows just how often some of these suspicious words pop up in everyday conversations. It comes in the form of a font.
Created by a Slovenian artist, Project Seen is a typeface that automatically flags all the trigger words used by international law-enforcement agencies
These trigger words were revealed back in 2013 as words that cause enforcement agencies to deem someone a potential terrorist. The list is currently growing and, in fact, may top 40,000 words.
Emil Kozole is the artist behind this project. He made Project Seen as part of his master's in communication design at Central Saint Martins University in London. Kozole explained that he wanted to make a masters project that somehow highlighted the fraught state of security in modern times.
"The biggest news of the summer was Snowden’s documents, where he exposed previously unknown practices of the NSA and British GCHQ," Kozole told me over Skype chat.
Read the rest here: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/man-created-font-tells-nsa-153922939.html