This Photo of Kim Kardashian Contains a Top-Secret Encrypted Message
People seem to like looking at pictures of Kim Kardashian. If that includes you, here’s some good news: Pictures of Kim Kardashian can now be used as a form of communication.
Free Art and Technology’s Maddy Varner has created a digital tool called Kardashian Krypt, a Chrome extension that makes Kardashian-picture communiqués possible. The service lets you send secret messages within photos of Kim Kardashian that your fellow Kardashian lovers can then decrypt.
“Leverage [Kardashian’s] visual omnipresence by hiding secret messages to your friends, family, enemies, frenemies, and other BFFs inside pictures of Kim,” suggests Varner, who was last spotted devising a way to “Kanyefy” your desktop. (There’s something about that couple …)
Install and open the extension, type a message (and password, if you wish), and click Enkrypt.
The extension generates a Kardashian image, presumably plucked from the Web. Send this image to a friend, or share it on Twitter, Tumblr, or whatever. Below is a secret message that I’ve encrypted within a Kim pic.
Your recipient needs the extension, too: To read the message hidden in an image, upload it and click “Dekrypt.”
And that’s it!
Congratulations: You have contributed to the ongoing proliferation of images of one of the most photographed humans in the history of the world!
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