[liberationtech] On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification

[Ted Smith]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 15:02 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> For a given blog post, the researchers were able to positively
> identify an
> individual author from among 100,000 possibilities 20% of the
> time. However, their method does not work if authors deliberately
> obfuscate
> their writing style.

Is it just me, or is this not impressive? 100k is a tiny subset of
authors, and a 20% hit rate means they're wrong 80% of the time. And
then, if I "deliberately obfuscate my writing style", I can get out of
that 20%?

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