Keeping secrets from The Man 0 ▲ Science matters 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [whc prev] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips Clapham & Dwyer's Surrealist Alphabet [1936]: A for 'orses; B for mutton; C for th' Highlanders, D for ential . . . Also relevant acknowledgment of l33t-speak [prev]Meanwhile over on MeFi, someone was seeking advice help hints for deliberately obfuscating {The Man | search engines | algorithms}. The long tail of the internet can be a problem for seekers-of-public-office. Even if you deleted your {drunken | catty | racist} tweets, it has probably been snagged and archived elsewhere for {ill-wishers | neighbours | journalists} to pick up and beat you with: 👁Jim Gavin👁. What we all could do with is a font / script which is readily readable by humans but won't be parsed into meaningful Ambonese Bodo Catalan Dogon English Farsi. My contribution to the MeFi debate: 5° 👁 ◎♄λ⑂ ωᴙ¡✞ε |~ ᴙəβ∪ſ set me… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.