In a recent paper, we showed that coding style is present in source code and can be used to de-anonymize programmers. But what if only compiled binaries are available, rather than source code? Today we are releasing a new paper showing that coding style can survive compilation. Consequently, we can utilize these stylistic fingerprints via […]
When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries
December 29, 2015 by
We can de-anonymize programmers from coding style. What are the implications?
February 26, 2015 by
In a recent post, I talked about our paper showing how to identify anonymous programmers from their coding styles. We used a combination of lexical features (e.g., variable name choices), layout features (e.g., spacing), and syntactic features (i.e., grammatical structure of source code) to represent programmers’ coding styles. The previous post focused on the overall […]
Anonymous programmers can be identified by analyzing coding style
January 21, 2015 by
Every programmer learns to code in a unique way which results in distinguishing “fingerprints” in coding style. These fingerprints can be used to compare the source code of known programmers with an anonymous piece of source code to find out which one of the known programmers authored the anonymous code. This method can aid in […]
How do we decide how much to reveal? (Hint: Our privacy behavior might be socially constructed.)
November 24, 2014 by
[Let’s welcome Aylin Caliskan-Islam, a graduate student at Drexel. In this post she discusses new work that applies machine learning and natural-language processing to questions of privacy and social behavior. — Arvind Narayanan.] How do we decide how much to share online given that information can spread to millions in large social networks? Is it always our […]
