On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, VolodyA! V Anarhist <volo...@whengendarmesleeps.org> wrote: > Matthew Toseland пишет: >> On Monday 12 October 2009 09:54:05 VolodyA! V Anarhist wrote: >>> http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/gaydar-algorithm-outs-facebook-users >>> >>> A pair of MIT students claim that they have created an algorithm that outs >>> gay >>> members of Facebook by analyzing the sexual orientations of their networks >>> of >>> friends. >>> >>> The students first analyzed the networks of people who publicized their >>> sexual >>> orientation on Facebook. Turns out that statistically speaking, gay men have >>> more gay friends than straight guys do. So then, they used an algorithm to >>> run >>> the stats on men who kept mum about their sexual orientation on the site. >>> Their >>> computer program was able to correctly identify 10 men whom the students >>> personally knew to be gay in the real world but who hadn't shared that fact >>> on >>> Facebook. (The algorithm didn't work as well with women or with bisexual >>> Facebookers.) >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> It'd be interesting if it's possible to make similar observations without >>> seeing >>> the whole map of the network, but only of the particular person. Regardless, >>> this is yet another reason to dislike WoT. >> >> Only if WoT gives an option to publicly specify your sexual orientation! ;) > > True, thus WoT should never be used for anything which allows you to say > anything about yourself that can be associated with WoT identity. > >> And are you ranting against darknet here or only against chat/etc WoT apps? > > No, i was not ranting against darknet or only against chat/etc WoT apps. > > - Volodya
How is this different from ranting about people engaging in the horribly insecure practice of replying to messages they find interesting? You can build the same basic graph structure, and analyze it in the same manner, merely from the messages. The WoT only makes it slightly more convenient, at worst. Evan Daniel _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
