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By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify users from anonymous data.

• chanux 17y ago
  Privacy on pyre.
• randomwalker 17y ago
  This is my work with my advisor. Our paper is online, take a look if you're interested. http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ We also have an FAQ that answers the common misconceptions: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html
  • markup 17y ago
    I posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something. I really enjoyed it
    • cos 17y ago
      I think it may just be because the title "De-anonymizing social networks" didn't actually convey what the experiment found, and it's the result (as communicated in the title here) that got people interested enough to click.
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• Dilpil 17y ago
  This seemed likely to many graph theorists. Glad someone proved it.