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It seems safe to assume most "known" ring detection systems being used are private/secret since their goal is to prevent abuse and revealing their details might
by jcr 12y ago
It seems safe to assume most "known" ring detection systems being used
are private/secret since their goal is to prevent abuse and revealing
their details might thwart their effectiveness. None the less, at least
some ring detection work is being done publicly, and I've recently been
trying to learn more about the methods being used. The following should
be helpful to anyone who has to fight this sort of abuse:
"Doppelganger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground"
https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sa499/papers/oakland2014-underground.pdf https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sa499/papers/oakland2014-unde...
Code: Find multiple accounts (doppelgangers) of a user
https://github.com/sheetal57/doppelganger-finder https://github.com/sheetal57/doppelganger-finder
https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
https://github.com/psal/jstylo https://github.com/psal/jstylo
- dougabug 12y agoSounds something akin to "security through obscurity." The perceived advantages of proprietary secret security measures are often dwarfed by the benefits of opening up a system to careful scrutiny.
- pilsetnieks 12y agoIt depends. Complexity and relatively low interest in a project may mean that only a few truly motivated individuals would even look at the code - and in this case the people most motivated are those who want to abuse the system.
- danielweber 12y agoKnowing that "security through obscurity" is a bad thing is a fine heuristic, especially for beginners. Thinking "security through obscurity" is automatically and always bad is incorrect. The people running this detection software don't do it to satisfy your intellectual curiosity. They do it because they are attempting to prevent attacks on their systems.