Comment on By comparing social graphs, researchers can identify users from anonymous data.Comments−randomwalker17yThis is my work with my advisor. Our paper is online, take a look if you're interested. http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ We also have an FAQ that answers the common misconceptions: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html−markup17yI posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something.I really enjoyed it−cosOP17yI 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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This is my work with my advisor. Our paper is online, take a look if you're interested. http://randomwalker.info/social-networks/ We also have an FAQ that answers the common misconceptions: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/socialnetworks-faq.html
I posted your paper yesterday (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=534399), no one seemed to bother... I am guessing bbc is sexier or something.
I really enjoyed it
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.