Paper Info
Title
Anti-aliasing on the web
Abstract
It is increasingly common for users to interact with the web using a number of different aliases. This trend is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is a fundamental building block in approaches to online privacy. On the other hand, there are economic and social consequences to allowing each user an arbitrary number of free aliases. Thus, there is great interest in understanding the fundamental issues in obscuring the identities behind aliases.However, most work in the area has focused on linking aliases through analysis of lower-level properties of interactions such as network routes. We show that aliases that actively post text on the web can be linked together through analysis of that text. We study a large number of users posting on bulletin boards, and develop algorithms to anti-alias those users: we can with a high degree of success identify when two aliases belong to the same individual.Our results show that such techniques are surprisingly effective, leading us to conclude that guaranteeing privacy among aliases that post actively requires mechanisms that do not yet exist.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1145/988672.988678
WWW
Keywords
Field
DocType
high degree,great interest,free alias,pseudonyms,bulletin board,different alias,fundamental issue,bulletin boards,privacy,aliases,arbitrary number,personas,large number,alias detection,double-edged sword,fundamental building block,network routing
World Wide Web,Computer science,Persona,SWORD,Anti-aliasing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-844-X
57
5.64
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jasmine Novak12182295.42
Prabhakar Raghavan2133512776.61
Andrew Tomkins393881401.23