How to Send Private Messages with Encypted, Glitchy Images

Crypstagram is offering an image service unlike any other. The site lets you embed messages inside private images that is  protected with a personal password. Created by The Barbarian Group, the service is like Instagram for the paranoid. In an interview with Wired, Babarian’s Ben Turner describes the project as a way to meld glitch art and privacy protest into one photo and messaging tool:

We were more interested in combining the themes of glitch art, government surveillance, and personal cryptography than we were with dictating a message or lesson.

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