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Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by CapacitorSet on Monday January 01, 2018 @06:48PM (#16048741)
Do you happen to have a link to these "content transposition" tools?
Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by bsamuels on Monday January 01, 2018 @07:03PM (#16048803)
No, counter intelligence tools in EVE are a closely guarded commodity. The automatic ones I've seen leave a lot to be desired. There's one group that I'm nearly certain is running one that works well but I don't have evidence to back it up.

One group decided that writing an automatic transposition program was too hard, and instead manually create transpositions for major posts. You can find the writeup here: http://failheap-challenge.com/showthread.php?16311-Taking-th...

Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by Rami114 on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:00AM (#16051390)
I can't believe people still read that stuff I wrote :o
Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by bsamuels on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:16PM (#16053880)
You're the only person who ever writes about exploiting people's CI tools, so I end up quoting your work a lot.

Would love to see a swing taken at Pandemic Legion's new forum background watermark, it's a lot more interesting than the old one.

Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by maz- on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:52AM (#16051360)
We wrote automatic tools too ;)

Some were identified and others... not

Re:Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text by 3131s on Monday January 01, 2018 @10:36PM (#16049678)
I was wondering that too, because even the example of adding / deleting indefinite articles and remaining grammatical would be very difficult.