Created a new effective technology to identify authors of anonymous email

Will continue the diary or not - no difference. The police of thoughts and so and so will get to him. He committed - and if he had not touched the paper with a pen, he would have committed the same - an absolute crime containing all the rest. Mystery offense - that's what it was called. Mystery crime can not be hidden forever. You can dodge some time, and even more than one year, but sooner or later they will get to you.

George Orwell, 1984


Professor of Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) Benjamin Fung (Benjamin Fung - his personal page ) has created a new effective technology for identifying individuals based on e-mail texts, which is a proven expert opinion and can be used in court.
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Dr. Fung (Professor of Engineering Information Systems) and his team used methods that are used in speech recognition and data mining to identify duplicate, i.e. distinctive features of combinations that are repeated in the letters of the suspect.


Analyzing such characteristic features as grammatical and (or) stylistic errors, the register of the text of the letter, manner of circulation, the number and type of "emoticons", the alignment of the text and its volume, as well as a number of other unique features, Professor Fung states that he can determine the sex with high probability , nationality, age, level of education of the author of the e-mail, which can be a significant contribution to the process of unique identification of a person, unlike its IP address. To verify the effectiveness of the new technology, the researchers analyzed Enron Email Dataset, which is a collection of more than 200,000 real letters from 158 employees of Enron Corporation.

Thus, if you want to play a trick on a colleague, feel free to tell a girl directly about something burning, want to give unobtrusive advice, or you are just a spammer, then with a high degree of probability the FBI can come to your home in a short time.

Original news here .