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Re:Human Side-Channels: Behavioral Traces We Leave by joncrane on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:57AM (#20498571)
Seems kind of rough....so you receive a ransom email and you do a fuzzy grep of the entire internet to see if forum posts with a similar "linguisitic signature" exist anywhere?

You'd have to narrow down that search significantly to get any results in any kind of reasonable time.

Re:Human Side-Channels: Behavioral Traces We Leave by evgen on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:41PM (#20499728)
It depends on the corpus. Stylometry (which is the actual name for this, not 'forensic linguistics') can be surprisingly accurate if it has a good selection of text to work with. How hard do you think it would be to crawl public facebook posts, reddit posts, posts to various hacker forums, and build a corpus large enough to connect the dots? I am betting it is a lot easier than most people think.

Next steps will be application of GANs and similar tools to stylometry to either give your posts a linguistic signature of someone else or to just remove enough unique data points to obscure the source.