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Nondescript: A Web Tool To Aid Subversion Of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
Nondescript: A Web Tool To Aid Subversion Of Authorship Attribution, Robin Davis
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A person’s writing style is uniquely quantifiable and can serve reliably as a biometric. A writer who wishes to remain anonymous can use a number of privacy technologies but can still be identified simply by the words they choose to use — how frequently they use common words like “of,” for instance. Nondescript is a web tool designed first to identify the user’s writing style in terms of word frequency from a given writing sample and document, then to suggest how the author can change their document to lessen its probability of being attributed to them. While Nondescript does not …