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I’d like to request the author takes this offline please until the implications can be thought through. This is breaking anonymity that people incorrectly thou
by throwawayhghcj 4y ago
I’d like to request the author takes this offline please until the implications can be thought through.
This is breaking anonymity that people incorrectly thought would not be revealed.
For some it might be awkward, others it might be quite problematic.
- s3000 4y agoThis is nothing new, e.g: Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050603 http://markallenthornton.com/blog/stylistic-similarity/ http://markallenthornton.com/blog/stylistic-similarity/ 37 points by lingben on Aug 12, 2015
- kaba0 4y agoI would agree with you but the genie is out of the bottle already. Nigh everyone can and could have reproduced these results, especially that archive.org and similar things exist. So, I don’t think it causes any new harm, if anything it gives you future risk aversion.
- IAmGraydon 4y agoThis is not complex and is a well known method that state actors have been using for quite a long time. Governments have FAR more advanced ways to track you than this, but it's good for people to realize it exists.