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Wired is reporting on a presentation given at Def Con 26 by Rachel Greenstadt, an associate professor of computer science at Drexel University, and Aylin Caliskan, Greenstadt's former PhD student and now an assistant professor at George Washington University, entitled Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints. Stylistic expression is uniquely identifiable and not anonymous, that includes code especially. There are privacy implications for many developers because as few as 50 metrics are needed to distinguish one coder from another.
The researchers don't rely on low-level features, like how code was formatted. Instead, they create "abstract syntax trees," which reflect code's underlying structure, rather than its arbitrary components. Their technique is akin to prioritizing someone's sentence structure, instead of whether they indent each line in a paragraph.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday August 14 2018, @01:46AM (2 children)
Sounds like you need a better editor. Or search algorithm. :)
(Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday August 14 2018, @03:59AM (1 child)
Nah, style got to support simplicity. If choosing between style and algorithm, algorithm is to die first.;)
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday August 14 2018, @04:13PM
The way I see it, "simple" means not having to type a certain way so your search will actually work. Then the algorithm supports whatever you do, rather than you supporting the algorithm.
But what do I know. :)