bbboing – obfuscate text but leave it readable

bbboing is an anagram of bobbing, which is part of my company name ( Bobbing Wide – hence my WordPress username ). Furthermore it’s an anagram where the first and last letters of the word are not changed. Given some text such as “code is poetry” the [bbboing] shortcode produces an obfuscated version of the text following the “rules” defined in http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

cdoe is peorty

The purpose of this plugin is both educational, experimental and entertaining.

Educational

It shows an example of a plugin developed using the application programming interface in my oik plugin, where I have been developing the idea of lazy smart shortcodes.

• lazy – the code to evaluate the shortcode is loaded on demand, when the shortcode is used.
• smart – the shortcodes understand the content in which they’re invoked

Experimental

… since I am trying to find a good approach for dealing with plugin dependency. This plugin doesn’t crash and burn when the oik plugin is not activated, it just waits for the message to say that oik has been loaded.

Entertaining

I hope you’ll agree with some or all of the following statements

bnbboig is a lazy srmat srhotocde

WsrePords is fnaittasc

2012 is the yaer of the meeutp

This site is purdloy peweord by WodrsePrs

Have a go for yourself

Type the text you want to obfuscate then click on ‘bbboing it’

According to a researcher at Cambridge University, it doesn’t matter in which order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be at the right place. The rest can be a total mess and you can still read it without problem. This is because the human mind does not read every letter by itself but the word as a whole.

This is the result of bbboinging the text.

Aindcrocg to a raserceher at Cidrmgbae Uiitesvrny, it dseon’t meattr in whcih odrer the lertets in a word are, the olny ipnrtomat tnhig is taht the frsit and lsat lteter be at the rgiht pclae. The rest can be a ttaol mses and you can siltl raed it wiouhtt peorlbm. Tihs is bsucaee the haumn mnid deos not raed evrey letetr by iesltf but the wrod as a wohle.

If you’re not happy with the result just click on ‘bbboing it’!

If you don’t see a form then it means this plugin is not activated. In that case please try bbboing on HerbMiller.me Download bbboing Download oik