UPDATE: looks like this is being discussed in a similar thread linking to nature.com. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871269 https://news.ycombinator

UPDATE: looks like this is being discussed in a similar thread linking to nature.com. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871269 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5871269 -- Very cool paper, but the title is wrong on this link, and here is why, it [the paper - 1] did not predict the scandal. It predicted the method by which the NSA can uniquely identify persons from four points of metadata. It also predicted this in 2012, but the NSA has been doing this since ~2007 or earlier. [1] http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/pdf/srep01376.pdf http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/pdf/srep013...