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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by markup on Friday March 27, 2009 @04:20PM (#535667)
I posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something.

I really enjoyed it

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Re:By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify user... by cos on Friday March 27, 2009 @08:31PM (#535956)
I think it may just be because the title "De-anonymizing social networks" didn't actually convey what the experiment found, and it's the result (as communicated in the title here) that got people interested enough to click.
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