Adam Shostack wrote:
... | It's not obvious to me how you'd change your writing style to defeat these | textual analysis schemes--would it really be as simple as changing the | average length of sentences and getting rid of the big words, or would | there still be ways to determine your identity from that text?
So, the question boils down to economics. There's how much you need to communicate, how much someone is willing to spend to tag you, and how good their proof needs to be. I suspect that for most purposes, proof does not need to be very strong in relation to your need to communicate.
An interesting ad-hoc test subject might be Eleusis/ZWITTERION from a.d.c.; I've wanted to see someone apply these techniques against his writing after following his posts and being amused/surprised myself. http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=off&q=Eleusis+group%3Aalt.drugs.chemistry http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=off&q=ZWITTERION+group%3Aalt.drugs.chemistry Strangely enough, the powers that be showed little interest in his electronic trail ... [ http://www.rhodium.ws/chemistry/eleusis/memoirs.html ]