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Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users
Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 08:54 AM EST
You know, years ago, during the SCO saga, some
donkey's behind who was harrassing Groklaw
submitted some samples of my work, and they
concluded that I was a man.

I am not.

Actually, they said my early Groklaw work was
written by a woman and the later by a man.

But it was all just me, from day one. The
later stuff was written after receiving death
threats and such, so that would explain a
change in style, a thought not considered by
them.

So I wouldn't lose any sleep over the purported
ability of such systems' ability to identify
anybody, based on writing style.

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It's not just about words
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 03:14 PM EST
They analyse your writings for persistent semantic constructs,
the way you present arguments. Whether such dialects would
survive compression to 800 word Basic English is arguable.

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  • Translated ... - Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 04:59 PM EST
  • Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 05:10 PM EST
    • Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 09 2013 @ 05:33 PM EST
      • Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 08:51 AM EST
        • Hmmm...... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 10:32 AM EST
Sites to Anonymize your writing
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 01:25 PM EST
There's a nice list on this site of online options to translate your text into things like Leet Speak.

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Gleick
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:23 PM EST
If you want a real world example, Gleick was recently identified because of the
writing style of a fake document that he circulated anonymously on the internet
to spread lies about climate change sceptics. It took less than 24 hours to
identify him as the likely culprit mainly on the basis of the writing style in
the faked document. He then confessed to circulating the document but ironically
not to authoring it. Of course that would be a admitting to an act of libel so
I am not really surprised.

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  • Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 10:33 PM EST
    • Gleick - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:07 PM EST
      • Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:23 PM EST
        • Gleick - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 11 2013 @ 11:25 PM EST
          • Gleick - Authored by: PJ on Saturday, January 12 2013 @ 12:09 AM EST
Truth proves itself at least as strange as fiction...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 14 2013 @ 08:48 AM EST
Narbonic is among the stranger fictions out there, yet it seems that we now have
a real-world analogue of Antonio Smith, Forensic Linguist...

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