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Re:Spellfucker by bussie on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:47AM (#14218631)
"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans"

What's the advantage to this?

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Re:Spellfucker by emodendroket on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:21AM (#14219115)
Defeating censorship, frustrating accounts to analyze or index communications, etc.
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Re:Spellfucker by tarboreus on Saturday April 29, 2017 @04:08PM (#14228472)
Spamming people and making it impossible for blind people to use the internet?
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Re:Spellfucker by majewsky on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:17AM (#14218765)
Maybe provide a challenge for NLP researchers?
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Re:Spellfucker by keithly on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:14AM (#14219075)
Spam comes to mind.
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Re:Spellfucker by emodendroket on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:21AM (#14219117)
I don't think anybody would have the patience for a spam message that had gone through this.
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