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Identifying John Doe: It might be easier than you think

• rm-rf 17y ago
  As one who occasionally ends up on the receiving end of these sort of subpoenas, I'm not surprised that a slightly broader dragnet would lead to much better information. It'd be very interesting to know if there is some combination of cache/cookie clearing, adblock, noscript etc. that effectively breaks the chain.
  • lurkinggrue 17y ago
    I would suggest also removing unique fonts from your system.
• Zak 17y ago
  I'm curious about the possible impact of author identification via text analysis in this context. I've been working on a personal project that, in initial testing has a fairly high degree of speed and accuracy when testing a large number (~1000) of possible authors against a sample. The accuracy probably won't ever be good enough to be admissible in court, but in many situations it might not matter. I'm wondering about the... ethics isn't quite the right word. I can't decide if releasing such a thing in to the world would be good.