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I dont know what to think about this paranoid thought.

Reconscope

Reconscope

Supreme Citizen of ZV
Just a bathroom thought: Ever feel like every word we say can be tracked/ identified digitally or real life based on the pattern of our words without the use of addressing or anything else tracking related. Heres a example: a individual favors a very specific set of words/weapons/skills they shared/acquired over a long while during their lifetime. Someone can use this infomation can track others but dont use it but when they do find out there is pattern they will exploit it they will find you then they will get you.

Scary thought to think about. If our words and lives equal a tracking pattern in some hidden grammaical algorithm.
 
Well, there actually are AIs that can create a probability match if fed pieces of writing from a known individual then give it an unknown piece you want to see if it came from that individual. Writing style and word/grammar usage can be quantified given enough samples of an individual's writing/speech.
 
dartel said:
Well, there actually are AIs that can create a probability match if fed pieces of writing from a known individual then give it an unknown piece you want to see if it came from that individual. Writing style and word/grammar usage can be quantified given enough samples of an individual's writing/speech.
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Im not the only one who thinks this
 
dartel said:
It's not think, it exists. Historians have used it to attribute anonymous letters to historical figures by comparing them to known letters and published writings.
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What do you think though? Should this whole system make someone like me paranoid or theres no need to worry?
 
There's a tool called (I bet I'm screwing up the spelling) The Billadoe Sieve, whereby a computer user can be identified (not by name, but absolutely to "We're talking about one specific person" level) with anywhere between 95 and 99% certainty by the pattern of what websites he hits on a regular basis, regardless of where he comes from, whether it's his home computer, a library computer, internet cafe, or whatever. It's effectively a "fingerprint" in terms of its level of uniqueness when it comes to identifying a specific user.

That's the "Be very, very afraid" part.

The "No need to be quite so afraid" part is that it requires access to the traffic logs of LOTS of major routers.

The "Maybe we SHOULD be afraid after all" part is that it *SHOULD BE* common knowledge to any intelligent internet user that most (all?) governments and/or government agencies either already have, or can easily get that sort of access, at least for hardware located inside their borders.
 
UR20Z said:
There's a tool called (I bet I'm screwing up the spelling) The Billadoe Sieve, whereby a computer user can be identified (not by name, but absolutely to "We're talking about one specific person" level) with anywhere between 95 and 99% certainty by the pattern of what websites he hits on a regular basis, regardless of where he comes from, whether it's his home computer, a library computer, internet cafe, or whatever. It's effectively a "fingerprint" in terms of its level of uniqueness when it comes to identifying a specific user.

That's the "Be very, very afraid" part.

The "No need to be quite so afraid" part is that it requires access to the traffic logs of LOTS of major routers.

The "Maybe we SHOULD be afraid after all" part is that it *SHOULD BE* common knowledge to any intelligent internet user that most (all?) governments and/or government agencies either already have, or can easily get that sort of access, at least for hardware located inside their borders.
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Never knew such infomation existed
 
Reconscope said:
Really?
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He wrote a manifesto and mailed it out. He was really smart, but a person who knew him was able to identify phrases he wS known to use, and boom, got'emmmm.

That being said they have tools for plagiarism that highschool teachers uses, I bet if they really cared who you were, and you posted enough stuff, they would eventually track you down. But you aren't doing that kinda stuff, you just kinda like dog dicks, right? I dont think CIA man will care too much about that.
 
I've thought about something like that. Though there is the thing where if someone makes it obvious based on what pictures they're sending. Like someones dog. I've noticed someone that had a telegram profile pic similar to what I saw elsewhere. If one were very determined, they could just use anything even if its something small to compare.
 
ElectricSheep said:
He wrote a manifesto and mailed it out. He was really smart, but a person who knew him was able to identify phrases he wS known to use, and boom, got'emmmm.

That being said they have tools for plagiarism that highschool teachers uses, I bet if they really cared who you were, and you posted enough stuff, they would eventually track you down. But you aren't doing that kinda stuff, you just kinda like dog dicks, right? I dont think CIA man will care too much about that.
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Ummm i prefer canine females if you read up on me
 
dogluver101 said:
I've thought about something like that. Though there is the thing where if someone makes it obvious based on what pictures they're sending. Like someones dog. I've noticed someone that had a telegram profile pic similar to what I saw elsewhere. If one were very determined, they could just use anything even if its something small to compare.
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You mean how my dog matches images? As a example?
 
I tend to worry about it sometimes But I don't really post a lot on media where my name is attached either by name like on Facebook or anything connected to my named e-mail. To sign up for site where I can be an anonymous person I use stuff like 10 minute e-mail and make sure to save my passwords in a password notebook I keep in a lock box. Gives me a bit of peace of mind.
 
NearlyEthical said:
I tend to worry about it sometimes But I don't really post a lot on media where my name is attached either by name like on Facebook or anything connected to my named e-mail. To sign up for site where I can be an anonymous person I use stuff like 10 minute e-mail and make sure to save my passwords in a password notebook I keep in a lock box. Gives me a bit of peace of mind.
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Even paper can be hacked
 
If you think about it there are a lot of characteristics to classify, like wording, punctuation, persistent spelling mistakes, idoms and the whole lot. As for myself I noticed my sentences somtimes get awkwardly long by using many conjunctions. So I think there's certainly some way to crawl all posts made by a specific user and match it up with other texts up to a certain degree.

However, here's the catch: Without a concrete suspision, the overhead of something like that would be massive. You'd have to create a "profile" of each and every account that can be traced back to a natural person and iterate over all these profiles to try to match it with an offending text. I wonder if those nosy privacy nightmares aka 3-letter US agencies do have the computational capabilities for such things.
 
Reconscope said:
why not be paranoid if todays tech is becoming more and more invasive.
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For sure, some is over the line. No doubt. There is a lot of it aimed at improving your online and offline experiences. If they can please you that way, you'll be happy, and will spend more money on either them, or their advertisers and/or other clients on things you buy anyway. If that works, it's a win-win.
Just a little example: a girl I knew went to a supermarket, paid for her stuff and presented her Super Shopper Savings Card for that store, which they scanned, of course. Ten minutes after she arrived home, she went online to a weather website she frequently visits. On the site were ads for the local, not national, store chain she'd just left, which she'd never seen before on that site, along with separate ads with printout coupons for a few products she brought.
She freaked out until I explained to her those appeared instead of ads for products and services she would never, ever use, and wasn't that better. The system worked.
 
Kristy said:
For sure, some is over the line. No doubt. There is a lot of it aimed at improving your online and offline experiences. If they can please you that way, you'll be happy, and will spend more money on either them, or their advertisers and/or other clients on things you buy anyway. If that works, it's a win-win.
Just a little example: a girl I knew went to a supermarket, paid for her stuff and presented her Super Shopper Savings Card for that store, which they scanned, of course. Ten minutes after she arrived home, she went online to a weather website she frequently visits. On the site were ads for the local, not national, store chain she'd just left, which she'd never seen before on that site, along with separate ads with printout coupons for a few products she brought.
She freaked out until I explained to her those appeared instead of ads for products and services she would never, ever use, and wasn't that better. The system worked.
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sounds very dependable right there
 
Kristy said:
She freaked out until I explained to her those appeared instead of ads for products and services she would never, ever use, and wasn't that better. The system worked.
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No that's not better. It's invasive bullshit, and in fact all advertising is horrible. This is why I aggressively use ad and script blocking software, so much so that it actually breaks some websites.
 
dartel said:
No that's not better. It's invasive bullshit, and in fact all advertising is horrible. This is why I aggressively use ad and script blocking software, so much so that it actually breaks some websites.
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I use an ad blocker on some sites. Not this one, nor any other site which is free and making me feel real fortunate the site exists, which, without the ads, it likely would not.
Advertising will reach you, no matter where you are, in one form or another, online or offline whether you like it or not.
 
Yes, I think that it's possible to identify me by how and what I write. Not everyone can, but I am aware that governments, certainly a company like Google and some smaller specialized firms can. But do they care? I guess gathering all my data and publishing it could become quite embarrassing for me, but I try not to break laws.

I've also thought about what I would do if someone blackmailed me, threatening to dox me (and proving that they actuallly have private information) and I've come to the conclusion that I would not cooperate with such scum. Blackmailing people is a crime. That's bad! Having sex with a dog is not illegal where I live and neither are fantasies about it.
 
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