Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
Iman Moradi – Glitch Aesthetics
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<strong>Glitch</strong> <strong>Aesthetics</strong><br />
<strong>Iman</strong> <strong>Moradi</strong><br />
4.3.2. Quarks/Cryptology/Read Receipts: measuring changes content.<br />
Quantum Cryptography, which makes eavesdropping on secure communications<br />
nearly impossible, is based on the principles of quantum physics. The Heisenberg<br />
uncertainty principle, states that it is impossible to measure something with<br />
perfect accuracy because the act of measurement alters the subject being<br />
measured. (Singh, 2001)<br />
Therefore, if a message that was sent using a quantum cryptographic method was<br />
to be read by an eavesdropping third party, it would immediately become<br />
apparent to the sender and recipient that someone is eavesdropping.<br />
There is an interesting parallel here between the process of creating certain<br />
<strong>Glitch</strong>-alikes and quantum cryptography. If you forced an image file to open in a<br />
standard non-image editing application such as Microsoft WordPad and then<br />
saved over the original image without changing anything, the image will become<br />
corrupted due to the way it is saved by the non-image editing application. The<br />
result is either visible as a visual glitch or the image becomes so corrupt that it<br />
cannot even be viewed in an image viewer.<br />
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