How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
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How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
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#2Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
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#3Um, unsourced speculation from someone with no credibility in the field making an allegation which on its face doesn't add up?
Why is this even here?
Re: How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
#4Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
This was the approach the "Shadow Brokers" took. People loved speculating on their native language and how they were faking their poor English skills when the reality is they obfuscated it.
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#5Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
It already exists.
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#6Um, unsourced speculation from someone with no credibility in the field making an allegation which on its face doesn't add up? Why is this even here?
Even if it's written as fiction it has value.
There is nothing in it that would be outside of the capabilities of the NSA.
IMO I tend to believe it is not fiction, without even looking at the authors resume.
It passes many smell tests that a lot of HN articles clearly fail.
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#7Shouldn't be difficult to build a tool to randomly obfuscate writing you want to conceal. Swapping words/sentences with semantic equivalents should be a rather trivial exercise. If the tool allows the human to revise and tune it, it's even easier.
That might be like saying it's easy to make a Facebook clone in a day.
Any tool that could do it well could translate perfectly between languages I'd guess since it'd need perfect understanding of the writing. Else you introduce leaks.
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#8Based on my conversation I got the impression (never confirmed) that he might have been more than one person.
I've always thought this as well. It really makes the most sense.
Re: How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
#9Um, unsourced speculation from someone with no credibility in the field making an allegation which on its face doesn't add up? Why is this even here?
I'll give you that there isn't anything backing the article, but I don't see anything that doesn't "add up".
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#10I'd assume they had a (small) pool of candidates to start with and finding the author of texts in the group of authors is very far from identifying every person on Earth by linguistic style (as the article states)