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What if all comments had information about the poster's IP address. Maybe a unique hash based on IP, country of origin, registered organization? Maybe that way
by staunch 10y ago
What if all comments had information about the poster's IP address. Maybe a unique hash based on IP, country of origin, registered organization?
Maybe that way people could at least identify suspicious patterns themselves.
But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data.
Some pro-democracy group should probably be funding this kind of technical approach. It's likely to be a lot more effective than waiting for all these companies to do it themselves.
- bigbugbag 10y agoIP is not personally identifiable data, there's a European ruling on this. Then there's a trove of techniques to mask IPs that bad guys know and regular people don't, so this would negatively affect regular persons and have no effect on the targets.
- wu-ikkyu 10y ago>But even without any new data, a third-party could identify troll rings on reddit, youtube, and twitter by scraping the data. I don't think it is as easy to mitigate as you make it seem. Here is a study which details a real-life sock puppet operation tested on Reddit, and the difficulties in detecting it: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock_puppets_in_rnetsec_last_year_and_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...