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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by _nedR on Friday April 19, 2019 @01:42AM (#19697342)
This is already a thing. In fact the rumour is that the US govt discovered the identity of Bitcoin's Satoshi using this.

https://medium.com/cryptomuse/how-the-nsa-caught-satoshi-nak...

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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by jmkni on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:50AM (#19698445)
I always thought Satoshi was more than one person, if this is true it would suggest otherwise.
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Re:Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the w... by _nedR on Friday April 19, 2019 @07:00AM (#19698494)
Actually in the article, the author says he got the impression it might be more than one person (but his sources do not confirm or deny it) which if true probably means the NSA found the writings to belong to several people.

Sorry if my original comment seemed to imply otherwise.

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