Friday, September 11, 2009

TxtNinja Stashes Your Text Inside Images [Security]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/cz11LOlhHXo/txtninja-stashes-your-text-inside-images

Have something you want other people to read but not spam bots and search-engine crawlers? TxtNinja will turn your plain text into an image to keep the bots at bay.

Why might you want to forgo plain text? One of the more popular reasons is to mask your email to keep spam bots from sucking it up as they scan web pages. Leaving your email@someprovider.com in the open makes it ripe for picking. TxtNinja allows you to turn that plain text into:


The result is an image file which is human friendly but not machine readable.

TxtNinja allows you to change the font, font size, color, background, and supports international character sets for a dozen non-English languages.



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