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Can you figure out this secret emoji cipher?

Codemoji from Mozilla lets you send messages that — even if they're intercepted — are meaningless unless you know how to decipher them.

Each emoji scrambles letters differently. (Screenshot via Mozilla)

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Know what I’m saying? This is a cipher and it comes from a neat little project by Mozilla called Codemoji.
“Decipher” is a word we use often enough, but might not understand where it comes from. A cipher is like a secret code, where each letter or symbol stands for a different letter. Ciphers are the building blocks of encryption, a topic near to Mozilla’s heart (you can check out the browser’s video series on the topic here).
“It’s part of our cross-organization effort to educate about encryption,” explained Aure Moser of the Mozilla Science Lab (which, btw, has a fellowship you should check out).
With Codemoji, you write a sentence or phrase, pick an emoji through which to translate it, and out comes your message, in emoji cipher.
So my message, “Hi, readers :)” translated through the Codemoji cipher algorithm becomes: ??   ???????   ??
Try it out for yourself here.

Companies: Mozilla

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