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


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.


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.


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


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.


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.


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.


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


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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