Anonymouth to Combat Stylometry
August 7th, 2013Via: I-Programmer:
An open source project to combat “stylometry”, the study of attributing authorship to documents based only on the linguistic style they exhibit, is proving that it is possible to change writing style so as to evade detection.
Artificial Intelligence techniques are routinely used to detect plagiarism and recently were employed to reveal that Harry Potter author J K Rowling is indeed the author of The Cuckoo’s Calling published under the byline of Robert Galbraith. Now software is tackling the opposite problem – anonymizing writing style to protect the identity of the originator.
Students from the Privacy, Security and Automation Lab (PSAL) at Drexel University recently won the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 12th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium for their paper “Use Fewer Instances of the Letter “i”: Toward Writing Style Anonymization,” which explains this new framework for anonymizing writing style.
The idea behind Anonymouth is that sylometry can be a threat in situations where individuals want to ensure their privacy while continuing to interact with others over the Internet.
