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There's an intoxicating effect of just contributing to a conversation, saying something interesting to other people. But there's also shyness and paranoia: wha
by armchairhacker 5y ago
There's an intoxicating effect of just contributing to a conversation, saying something interesting to other people.
But there's also shyness and paranoia: what if whatever I say makes me look bad? What if it comes back to screw me over later?
The Internet dilutes the latter a bit because you're anonymous. But you can still get caught e.g. if someone goes through your post history and recognizes you.
Some people are very paranoid and don't like to share anything because they're afraid somehow it will affect them later. I guess on the other hand, there are people willing to share confidential information for attention without protecting themselves adequately (or at all!).
- swayvil 5y agoI know (from a forum) a guy who is VERY paranoid. His ideas are strange. His conversational style is combative. He published a book. He used his forum nick as the author name. He won't let anybody even know his age. Forget occupation or nation. Par. A. Noid.
- ta988 5y agoI wonder how much you could find by correlating subjects and way of writing. Not so many people hide their writing style as well.
- swayvil 5y agoOh no doubt. The technology definitely already exists. A wonderful algorithm that all the security agencies use.
- cassonmars 5y agoThere’s some folks who will run their sentences through google translate and back between languages with poor translation coverage to strip identifying writing styles.
- geoduck14 5y ago>There’s some folks who will run their sentences through google translate and back between languages with poor translation coverage to strip identifying writing styles. Hi Google! It's Robert Hackerman, here with the County Search Engine Inspector Office. Google: Hi Bob! How can I help you? Robert: I have a bunch of phrases passed through your Google Translate, can you help me find the IP that submitted them? Thanks.
- Sebb767 5y agoWell, if they can get through to Google Support, what can a mere Human do to hide? ;) On a more serious note, if you're going to that level of security, you're probably using something like TOR anyway (otherwise they simply ask the site the text was posted on for the IP). Additionally, you can use multiple services for each translation, obscuring the trail further. Good luck getting that data from Yandex. Lastly, I'm not sure whether Google (and others) really log every sentence entered, but as described before, you can easily avoid that. Or read the privacy policy.
- int_19h 5y agoI wonder if you could ask GPT-3: "rephrase ...".
- Y_Y 5y agoAbsolutely. However, if I were to do this I'd go more direct. If you have an NN that assesses writing style then you can do a "style-transfer"-type GAN that ensures that it will classify as some chosen style other than your own.
- weeblewobble 5y agoThis is how they caught the unabomber
- pyuser583 5y agoThink of how many legal rights you sign away by participating on Facebook/Twitter/etc. everything you say becomes IP of a for-profit company and you get paid zero. Why do it? Because people like sounding off.