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Feb 05, 2008 18:37

I fucking LOVE Joey Comeau. He's such a weird guy, a really avant garde type of writer. He actually reminds me of my friend Dan. Anyway, he wrote this:

I've been thinking. You could make a map of the city's pay phones. You could mark them all down and carefully choose your targets. Then pick some rare combination of flagged words. How often do you ( Read more... )

writing, a softer world, joey comeau

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uilliam February 6 2008, 00:03:33 UTC
Well, if the government is tapping them to the level that they're going to notice "gas attack" and "plutonium" and "strawberries" combinations frequently appearing, then they are probably going to be running a computer analysis which will also detect speech patterns and recognize that it is most likely the same person.
Not that I've seen Clear and Present Danger or read a Tom Clancy novel or been in the room with a computer program that did something similar and nearly crapped myself at the level of information and accuracy voice recognition software could achieve even back in the early 90s.

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