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First come the programs which generate fingerprints from writing samples. Then comes the corpus of known author fingerprints which can take a submission of arb
by rachelbythebay 14y ago
First come the programs which generate fingerprints from writing samples. Then comes the corpus of known author fingerprints which can take a submission of arbitrary content and turn it into a series of authors and confidence values.
Later, someone will figure they can profit by gaming this system and writing posts which appear to be someone else. All they have to do is try to clone an author's style and then feed their attempts to the analysis program to see how close they came. Then they can just fine-tune things until it's a strong enough match and push it out there as legitimate.
Yep, we might just have a "linguistic similarity analysis arms race" at some point. I concluded this in a post some months back. http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/29/info/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/08/29/info/
- andrewcooke 14y agonice post (didn't know about dns serial nos). but why does it have to be a humorous phrase (as timestamp)? couldn't it be a site that generates a random nonce every day (and provides a service that compares two nonces)?
- rachelbythebay 14y agoI guess it doesn't have to be humorous to be useful. I'd just like to have them be quirky enough to be appreciated by users. Just think of the first time your favorite site changed its appearance for a special holiday or similar. It gives you some idea there are people involved and it's not just a bunch of robots flinging bits around.
- andrewcooke 14y agohttp://colorlessgreen.net/ http://colorlessgreen.net/
- j_s 14y agoAuthenticode uses timestamp servers. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/03/22/authenticode-code-signing-for-developers-for-file-downloads-building-smartscreen-application-reputation.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/03/22/authe... > Time-stamping adds a cryptographically-verifiable timestamp to your > signature, proving when the code was signed. [...] not all publisher > certificates are enabled to permit timestamping to provide indefinite > lifetime [...] to free a Certificate Authority from the burden of > maintaining Revocation lists (CRL, OCSP) in perpetuity.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoHardly a fair race. And of course its on-going in the pursuit of better ad targeting. And it its one of those weird places you find yourself when dealing with something like Quora and other sites. Basically every 'sample' has both data (the sample) and meta-data (where it came from, when) and those things add up. Looking at some of the research which de-anonymized datasets it was pretty clear that who was saying what, especially a large corpus of such utterances, would yield identify information, if not the actual person but the 'same' person.
- krickle 14y agoFollowed by the linguistic anonymity arms race!
- noonespecial 14y agoThey'll have a hard time defeating my thesaur-ator and idiom-ator.