Re:Textual analysis

2003-12-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
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

Re:Textual analysis

2003-12-16 Thread Morlock Elloi
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

Re:Textual analysis

2003-12-15 Thread John Kelsey
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