At 10:36 AM 12/14/03 -0500, John Kelsey 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
Its like steganalysis. Its an arms race between measuring your own
signatures vs. what the Adversary can measure. If sentence length
is a metric known to you, you can write filters that warn you.
Similarly for the Adversary. You end up in an arms race
over metrics ---who has the more
At 09:44 AM 12/13/03 -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
..
And what is my supposed three-space paragraph lead-ins? The concept of
textual analysis to prove ID has always amused me. A competent writer can
easily
change writing styles from moment to moment. I well recall a university
english
lit prof