Unintended use
Posted on February 07, 2002 @ 15:04 in General
Chalk up another one for the unintended use of an existing technology. Researchers found that the compression algorithms, such as you find in popular "zip" programs such as WinZip, StuffIt and gzip, can be used to very precisely predict the language used in a document working with as few as 20 characters, even in 93% of the cases succesfully identify the particular author of a text. Unisci has an article here and Wired reports on it here.
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