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Tor is nice, but how long will it take until textual analysis against a large corpus becomes available to everyone with an interest? We already have fairly adva
by JoachimSchipper 15y ago
Tor is nice, but how long will it take until textual analysis against a large corpus becomes available to everyone with an interest? We already have fairly advanced plagiarism detection mechanisms and Bayesian spam filters; similar ideas allow author-identification.
I would, in fact, be somewhat surprised if nobody has proposed deploying this kind of thing against, say, Anonymous.
- dlss 15y agoTrolls don't generally write enough for these approaches to work. From the article, we have a troll writing "Rest in piss" and "Rest in piss, you n*r". I'm pretty sure those won't personally identify anyone.
- blake8086 15y agoSomeone could use the exact same technique to write something and have it be attributed to someone else. Say you use an n-gram analysis at the word level. I can just build a tool that processes a corpus, and then as I type, suggests the most probable next word for me. I can simply accept those words when appropriate and look like a different person.