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How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
- thomasahle 9y agoI wonder how hard it would be to make a 'sentence anonymizer'. Like an English to English version of Google LSTM translator network. Perhaps trained adversarially.
- pdkl95 9y agohttps://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth > JStylo is used as an underlying feature extraction and authorship attribution engine for Anonymouth, which uses the extracted stylometric features and classification results obtained through JStylo and suggests users changes to anonymize their writing style.
- diggan 9y agoOne example is linked in the bottom of the article: > How to Protect Yourself: There is a project on Github you can join to help create a way to write without fingerprints: https://github.com/psal/anonymouth https://github.com/psal/anonymouth
- thomasahle 9y agoThis works by using already existing author detection software, and simply warning the author if the sentences seem too particular. That's probably a pretty good solution, though it doesn't give much assurance against other identification programs.
- CM30 9y agoPosted before, and my thoughts on it are the same. Is it plausible the NSA has really identified Satoshi Nakamoto? Of course, they have the resources needed. But this article is very short on evidence beyond 'trust me, I know a guy'. It's the equivalent of saying your uncle works at Nintendo or what not. It might be true, but you've given people no way to truly be sure. It's all pure blind faith. Again, I'll stay optimistic, but without evidence, I won't bet on anything.
- lern_too_spel 9y agoUnsourced conspiracy theory that makes several known-false statements.
- samstave 9y agoOut of the loop: is Satoshi guilty / accused of any crimes?