Comment by throwawayhghcj
3 years ago
I’d like to request the author takes this offline please until the implications can be thought through.
This is breaking anonymity that people incorrectly thought would not be revealed.
For some it might be awkward, others it might be quite problematic.
I would agree with you but the genie is out of the bottle already. Nigh everyone can and could have reproduced these results, especially that archive.org and similar things exist.
So, I don’t think it causes any new harm, if anything it gives you future risk aversion.
This is nothing new, e.g:
Analyzing stylistic similarity amongst authors
http://markallenthornton.com/blog/stylistic-similarity/
37 points by lingben on Aug 12, 2015
This is not complex and is a well known method that state actors have been using for quite a long time. Governments have FAR more advanced ways to track you than this, but it's good for people to realize it exists.