Category: de-anonymization
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Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police
Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police 404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI. It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Proton Mail. Bruce Schneier…
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LLM-Assisted Deanonymization
LLM-Assisted Deanonymization Turns out that LLMs are good at de-anonymization: We show that LLM agents can figure out who you are from your anonymous online posts. Across Hacker News, Reddit, LinkedIn, and anonymized interview transcripts, our method identifies users with high precision and scales to tens of thousands of candidates. While it has been…