How you will not uncover Satoshi

Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by supergauntlet on Sunday June 29, 2014 @11:17PM (#7963522)

You could always just release the raw LaTeX source and let people compile it themselves or something.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by VMG on Monday June 30, 2014 @02:01AM (#7963879)

I'd imagine you reveal too much information with your personal latex writing style.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by x1798DE on Monday June 30, 2014 @11:20AM (#7965472)

It's not foolproof, but that does require that you have released a sufficiently large sample of LaTeX source under your real name (or something that can be traced to your real name) for comparison. Additionally, if you really want to release something typeset like that, but you're worried about fingerprinting, my guess is that it's not that hard to deliberately change your personal style by using a minimal set of packages and when necessary restricting yourself to the most popular packages. Even if your new personal style still ends up unique, it wouldn't match the fingerprint of anything you've released under your own name.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by alex_doom on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:19AM (#7964084)

That's why I compose all my top secret documents in emoji. If anyone finds them they'll just assume it's gibberish from a 13yr old girl.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by dasil003 on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:28AM (#7964095)

13-year-old girls are more fluent digital communicators than you or me.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by reitanqild on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:35AM (#7964109)

Strongly disagree.

This is something you will hear from a lot of places, often from people who never were early adopters of neither mail, sms or skype etc.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by dasil003 on Monday June 30, 2014 @09:30AM (#7964925)

Yeah well that's not me... I've been on BBSes since 1988 and got my first proper internet shell account in 1991 when, incidentally, I was 13.

The reason I made the comment is because it rubbed me the wrong way to cite 13-year-old girl talk as prototypical gibberish. Are 13-year-old girls generally excitable and potentially annoying? Yes. Do they talk in gibberish as a matter of course? No, that's a thoughtless sexist trope.

And I'll place a blind bet that they text faster than you.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by reitanqild on Monday June 30, 2014 @01:13PM (#7966192)

Agree that the girl part should have been left out.

Still think an average hn-er should be able to type faster and more correct on a normal keyboard than the average 13yo, regardless of gender.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by dasil003 on Monday June 30, 2014 @04:38PM (#7967553)

You're stacking the deck. Physical keyboards are ancient technology ;)

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by keithpeter on Monday June 30, 2014 @03:40AM (#7964116)

Might markdown be sufficiently basic to reduce style based fingerprinting?

I suspect that the actual writing style apart from the markup would provide some clues.

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by lallysingh on Sunday June 29, 2014 @11:37PM (#7963580)

Or build the latex in a clean VM

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Re:How you will not uncover Satoshi by willvarfar on Monday June 30, 2014 @08:07AM (#7964620)

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html suggests you cannot trust anything!

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