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Seems kind of rough....so you receive a ransom email and you do a fuzzy grep of the entire internet to see if forum posts with a similar "linguisitic signature"
by joncrane 7y ago
Seems kind of rough....so you receive a ransom email and you do a fuzzy grep of the entire internet to see if forum posts with a similar "linguisitic signature" exist anywhere?
You'd have to narrow down that search significantly to get any results in any kind of reasonable time.
- evgen 7y agoIt depends on the corpus. Stylometry (which is the actual name for this, not 'forensic linguistics') can be surprisingly accurate if it has a good selection of text to work with. How hard do you think it would be to crawl public facebook posts, reddit posts, posts to various hacker forums, and build a corpus large enough to connect the dots? I am betting it is a lot easier than most people think. Next steps will be application of GANs and similar tools to stylometry to either give your posts a linguistic signature of someone else or to just remove enough unique data points to obscure the source.