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Re:How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto by rbanffy on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:38AM (#15206449)
Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
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Re:How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto by aaron695 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:26AM (#15206578)
That might be like saying it's easy to make a Facebook clone in a day.

Any tool that could do it well could translate perfectly between languages I'd guess since it'd need perfect understanding of the writing. Else you introduce leaks.

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Re:How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto by iopuy on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:14AM (#15206549)
This was the approach the "Shadow Brokers" took. People loved speculating on their native language and how they were faking their poor English skills when the reality is they obfuscated it.
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Re:How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto by throwa3211334 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @07:16AM (#15206553)
It already exists.
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