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https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi You don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's en
by throwaway32433 4y ago
https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi https://stylometry.net/user?username=causi
You don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's enough information from your comments across your accounts to reasonably identify you if someone wanted.
MIT did a study on 'anonymised' data and found out it only took something like 2 data points to identify someone.
- dbspin 4y agoPerhaps, but the site above doesn't seem particularly effective. I have an alt for reasons of convenience I use about equally regularly to my main. It's not even listed on the set of likely candidates. Meanwhile I've five spurious correlations above .6.
- buildsjets 4y agoStylometry does not identify any of my alternate accounts. I ain't skeered.
- costco 4y agoIt might have if I had used an algorithm that wasn’t the easiest to implement on stylometry.net. Unless you are varying your writing style across accounts a more sophisticated algorithm could very likely figure out your alts given enough comments. Which is not to say that you should give up everything and stop posting on HN but just something to consider depending on who your adversaries are.
- causi 4y agoThat's kind of ignoring my original point that it doesn't matter how many of your accounts they ID if you never put your personal details on the internet.
- causi 4y agoYou don't need to give out your name and address to be doxxed, there's enough information from your comments across your accounts to reasonably identify you if someone wanted. Oh, if a comment needs a personal detail it's randomized. Sometimes I'm married, sometimes I'm straight, sometimes I'm American, etc.