Re: <nettime> artfcity: Turbulence.org Going Offline

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

One interesting aspect about stylometry and its counter-measures, is 
that it appears possible to use counter-measures as the noise channel 
for steganography.

In other words, instead of positioning oneself randomly within the crowd 
for each text (which is what, for example, Anonymouth does), that 
positioning may carry the signal. The topic of the text can be used as a 
key to find related pieces (ie. discussion about Californian Ideology).

My wild guess is that, with 100 authors, and (Anonymouth-specific) 
mapping space resolution, it may be possible to inject 5-10 error-free 
encrypted message bytes per few kilobytes of text. Because each 
background of author-space is specific (ie. nettime authors are 
different from respondents to some blog), detecting this may be harder 
than detecting image-based steganography.

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