NY Times describes Lavabit’s (the secure email service) fight with the FBI
“When it was clear Mr. Levison had no choice but to comply, he devised a way to obey the order but make the government’s intrusion more arduous. On Aug 2, he infuriated agents by printing the encryption keys — long strings of seemingly random numbers — on paper in a font he believed would be hard to scan and turn into a usable digital format. Indeed, prosecutors described the file as “largely illegible.””
An example of an unscannable font is the ZXX created by Sang Mun, formerly of the Korean Military who ironically did work with the NSA
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