When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really?

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 16, 2012 @10:33AM from the go-ask-your-ghostwriter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Do you still think your online writing is, basically, anonymous? Think again! Research has it people put much of their personal traits into their writing, and computers may just be able to pick them up. That's at least what a recently announced competition on author identification (Given a document, who wrote it?) and author profiling (Given a document, what are its author's age and gender?) wants to find out. Alas, re-using other people's writing is no solution either; there's also a competition on plagiarism detection (Given a document, is it an original?). Wanna revisit your recent rants?"

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That's pretty easy by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-16 10:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Most people would just use something like Tor (or Tor and another VPN/proxy service). If they wanted to be absolutely sure, they could probably host their own hidden Tor Bridge somewhere and connect to it via VPN (or even with Tor itself, depending on level of paranoia).