[ NNSquad ] Researchers unmasking anonymous email senders

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Researchers unmasking anonymous email senders

http://j.mp/gUgGMn  (Network World)

     "A new technique developed by researchers at Concordia University
      in Quebec could be used to unmask would-be anonymous emailers by
      sniffing out patterns in their writing style from use of all
      lowercase letters to common typos."

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Of course, the next step is to create:

(a) Software or services that can take an input text and provide the
    author with a "sanitized" version that removes/alters the readily
    identifiable patterns and traces, creating a "santitized,"
    "generic" version that could no longer be uniquely identified

and:

(b) Software or services that can take an input text and provide
    the author with a version that mimicks the writing style of
    someone else, to falsely make it appear that the other person
    was the author of that text

Fun stuff, eh?

--Lauren--
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