Thursday, January 25, 2007

Beware of Pattern Matching

Scientists have discovered a way to track your identity online by checking your syntax (word length and consonant/vowel patterns, punctuation usage, sentence length, etc) and mouse patterns with 95% accuracy given enough input data. This means that your nonanonymous data could be used to determine whether an anonymous article was written by you. This is downright horrifying. If you want to preserve anonymity, have a thesaurus and syntax scrambler ready. Malicious users could force the spotlight on you by deliberatly analyzing and mimicking the way you write and act. The way to circumvent this is not simple, as I have mentioned. A good way to prevent this would be to mix content and computer usage with other people (for example by running a Tor server, sharing computer access, anonymous FTP, etc) You will be on your own for this until an obfuscation app is written.

- Dark
"Better to be paranoid than dead"

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