Textual analysis

[coderman]

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 ]