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He's likely to be identified as he gets more brazen. Even authoring this volume of text is risky, and there are other notes from the same author linked within.
by nerdy 10y ago
He's likely to be identified as he gets more brazen. Even authoring this volume of text is risky, and there are other notes from the same author linked within. Spelling can be used to approximate region and phrases or errors such as "the hard of the business" ("heart of") and "passtime" ("pastime") are even stronger markers. Of course there's no way to tell if these are unintentional or planted errata.
I'm grateful for the information. It's incredibly interesting, but it might come at great expense to the author.
- CamatHN 10y agoWho exactly would be trying to track him down? Is there some global force that would be active on him?
- nerdy 10y agoHT, Gamma, victims we aren't aware of, or any government who could believably threaten to prosecute then offer a deal for cooperation? Some people even do it out of curiosity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11304752
- CamatHN 10y agoThats the thing, HT or Gamma without the co-operation of international law enforcement presumably would have a very hard time finding these people in a legal manner. So whats going on up there.
- 21 10y agoHT Gamma can file a complaint with the relevant authority, just like any other hacked company, and this could trigger an international LE operation. So I'm not sure what your trying to say.
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- espadrine 10y agoThis text is a translation. The original is in Spanish. It might have its own mistakes and traces, although I am not knowledgeable to detect country-specific patterns. http://pastebin.com/raw/GPSHF04A http://pastebin.com/raw/GPSHF04A Presumably, given that they talk about EU culture^W^W^W^W (see comment below) have a https://securityinabox.org/es/… https://securityinabox.org/es/… link, the author is from Spain, which would make it easier to pinpoint an origin, as Spain has a wider spectrum of language differences than in most other Spanish-speaking countries. Since there is a link to http://madrid.cnt.es/ http://madrid.cnt.es/, they maybe live in the capital, which weighs 3 million inhabitants.
- zydeco 10y agoThat's an error on the translation, "EEUU" is the Spanish acronym for "Estados Unidos", referring to the United States of America, not the EU (in Spanish, "UE" for "Unión Europea")
- josemrb 10y agoAfter reading the original doc, by the style used and some slang (although it could be on purpose), I would say the author is from Chile. I'm glad to find people that still fight the system in this side of the world.
- dazhbog 10y ago"weones culiaos" sounds pretty Chilean indeed!
- peeb 10y agoI would be willing to bet they are from Italy. I am Italian and they wrote about some stuff that you would know only if you followed Italian news. They could be dropping some contradictory clues, BTW. I could definitely see that.
- 21 10y agoDid you verify that the stuff you refereed to as only being known if you follows Italian news is not on the net? Don't those Italian news outlets have websites? This guy seems to be pretty good at googling around for stuff.
- Esau 10y agoYou comment about spelling and phrases reminds me of the NYT's Dialect Quiz Map. I tried it and it was accurately able to guess where I was originally from. While not useful by itself, I could see it being handy as part of an overall investigation.
- adanto6840 10y agoHadn't seen it before and so looked it up -- pretty neat. Unfortunately the "results page" was broken, but the individual questions & associated heatmaps were still very interesting. Thanks! http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/...
- dorfsmay 10y agoOr even evaluating the frequencies of words, as well as the frequencies of juxtaposition of words.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThe Unabomber was turned in by his brother and sister in law who recognized his writing.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoYep. There's even automated techniques for spotting it with decent accuracy.