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Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Serhat Bakirtas, Elza Erkip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01366 h…

Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Database de-anonymization typically involves matching an anonymized database with correlated publicly available data. Existing research focuses either on practical aspects without requiring knowledge of the data distribution yet provides limited guarantees, or on theoretical aspects assuming known distributions. This paper aims to bridge these two approaches, offering theoretical guarantees for database de-anonymization under synchronization errors and obfuscation without prior knowledge of dat…

Anonymous social media app Sidechat has become both a place for dialog and a breeding ground for hate speech amid US college protests over the Israel-Hamas war (Sofia Barnett/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-sidechat-fanned-the-flame…

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

So, I've been recently having a conversation with several folk about Slack vs Discord and which platform may be more advantagous for organizing events and building community. I and others were surprised to learn of how wide the gulf is on various people's ranges of experiences on each service, in terms of community, harassment, security tools, and users feeling welcomed.
I recognize that my experience as a femme-presenting person who uses my real identity is different from that of an anonymous person with a profile photo showing a bearded guy in a Patagonia vest holding up an IPA. This tracks with the discussions I've had today: tech bros generally seem to lean toward one platform while all of my other business-owning women friends opt to steer away from that service almost entirely.
If you're femme and use your real identity online, do you have a preference for Slack or Discord? Have you ever opted out of using either Slack or Discord? In addition to discussion of general vibes and security tools, we also can all recognize that there are some surveillance/privacy tradeoffs in play, as well. (Just as, if you're an organizer, maybe you have thoughts about which service offers tools or features or pricing that steers you one way or another, as well?)
What are your stories on this topic?

Wenn ich von meinem Arbeitgeber eine „Unwiderrufliche Freistellung“ bekommen habe, darf ich jederzeit einen neuen Job annehmen.
Sehe ich das richtig? 🤔

Ammonium-rich bright areas on #Ceres demonstrate complex chemical activity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01281-2 -> The discovery of a new ammonium salt on the dwarf planet Ceres confirms a complex chemical activity: https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/03/27/the-discovery-of-a-new-ammonium-salt-on-the-dwarf-planet-ceres-confirms-a-complex-chemical-activity/

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

A leak purports to show thousands of pages of internal API documentation for Google Search, some of which appear to contradict Google's public statements (Rand Fishkin/SparkToro)
https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anon…

An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them - SparkToro
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google’s Search division.