Re: ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?
People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be interested in a Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the net eons ago. It should be in the '85 or '86 comp.sources under the name markov3. I recall that this was a program that fed enough posts from a given poster would create another post in their "style"; it was kinda fun. Jon -- ,,, (o o) Jon Boede ----ooO-(_)-Ooo---- jon@dell.com +1 512 728-4802 Engineering, Dell Computer Corp. Server OS Development Austin, TX "The problem is that _they_ see us as *them*." -- John Gilmore, Cypherpunk
According to Jon Boede:
People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be interested in a Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the net eons ago. It should be in the '85 or '86 comp.sources under the name markov3. I recall that this was a program that fed enough posts from a given poster would create another post in their "style"; it was kinda fun.
Has anyone found this program? I'd sure like a copy of it. Thanx in advance. J. Michael Diehl ;^) |*The 2nd Amendment is there in case the mdiehl@triton.unm.edu | Government forgets about the 1st! <RL> Mike.Diehl@f29.n301.z1 |*God is a good Physicist, and an even .fidonet.org | better Mathematician. <Me> al945@cwns9.ins.cwru.edu|*I'm just looking for the opportunity to (505) 299-2282 (voice) | be Politically Incorrect! <Me> Can we impeach him yet? |*Protected by 18 USC 2511 and 18 USC 2703.
From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Fri Oct 29 18:11:38 1993 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by ccwf.cc.utexas.edu with SMTP id AA01696 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>); Fri, 29 Oct 1993 17:39:18 -0500 Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA20384; Fri, 29 Oct 93 18:38:51 -0400 Received: by toad.com id AA27077; Fri, 29 Oct 93 15:25:23 PDT Received: by toad.com id AA27054; Fri, 29 Oct 93 15:23:54 PDT Return-Path: <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu> Received: from triton.unm.edu ([129.24.8.235]) by toad.com id AA27050; Fri, 29 Oct 93 15:23:50 PDT Received: by triton.unm.edu (5.65/0.1) id <AA13784>; Fri, 29 Oct 1993 16:23:35 -0600 J. Michael Diehl asks: According to Jon Boede:
People interested in fingerprinting anonymous posters might be interested in a Markov tuple analysis program that was posted to the net eons ago.
Has anyone found this program? I'd sure like a copy of it. Thanx in advance.
I found it in a net.sources archive (which should give a trip through the wayback machine for some old-timers...) You can now get it via anonymous ftp in ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/cypherpunks/utils/markov.shar.gz jim
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