Ray Dillinger writes:
Give me a few dozen writing samples from each of a hundred known people, and another writing sample a hundred words long from one of them under a pseudonym, and I can tell you to a 90% probability which of the hundred known people wrote it.
Ray you bring up a very interesting point. Does anyone know of a source for public domain, or open source, writing analysis software that will do just that ? Perhaps using such wares for testing purposes one can craft software to make subtle grammar or spelling or usage alterations in text based communications in order to defeat this sort of analysis. E.G. you've got a remailer or portal of some kind that accepts plain text input, and according to a set of rules makes shifts, sentence length, punctuation usage, spelling usage, and so on, to alter the distinctive signatures associated with the writing patterns of the person in question. THEN afterwards this is piped into an encryption module or just transmitted piecemeal at random timings in order to defeat traffic analysis.
Mad mullah wrote:
Ray Dillinger writes:
Give me a few dozen writing samples from each of a hundred known people, and another writing sample a hundred words long from one of them under a pseudonym, and I can tell you to a 90% probability which of the hundred known people wrote it.
Ray you bring up a very interesting point. Does anyone know of a source for public domain, or open source, writing analysis software that will do just that ?
Perhaps using such wares for testing purposes one can craft software to make subtle grammar or spelling or usage alterations in text based communications in order to defeat this sort of analysis.
E.G. you've got a remailer or portal of some kind that accepts plain text input, and according to a set of rules makes shifts, sentence length, punctuation usage, spelling usage, and so on, to alter the distinctive signatures associated with the writing patterns of the person in question. THEN afterwards this is piped into an encryption module or just transmitted piecemeal at random timings in order to defeat traffic analysis.
I've heard of using a text language translator. Translate forward to a different language...and to another... translate back to English. Somewhere. My memory is foggy. (Sounds like BS.) I recently saw some mildly pro email profiling work: I was creeped out (being of the sheeple, of course). [Profiler makes a mental note: excessively parenthetical, etc-etc...] ~Aimee
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Aimee Farr wrote:
I've heard of using a text language translator. Translate forward to a different language...and to another... translate back to English. Somewhere. My memory is foggy. (Sounds like BS.)
You may be thinking of babelfish. to portugese: Voc pode pensar de Babelfish. portugese to english: You can think of Babelfish. http://world.altavista.com/ seems to be the URL. Oddly enough, while they have "Russian to English", they don't seem to have "English to Russian." So can't try to old "Wine is fine but the flesh is rotten" trick... agradeca-o, -David
At 01:51 PM 4/19/01 -0500, Aimee Farr wrote:
I've heard of using a text language translator. Translate forward to a different language...and to another... translate back to English. Somewhere. My memory is foggy. (Sounds like BS.)
babelfish.altavista.com can do this. Of course, using a public unencrypted service kinda defeats the point. You need to use a local tool, and one that is popular.
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