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Published inMay 2023
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Rajvardhan Oak
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Rajvardhan Oak

Rajvardhan Oak is a cybersecurity expert, researcher, and scientist with a focus on machine learning solutions to security issues such as fake news, malware, and botnets. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Pune, India, and his master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the editorial committees of multiple technical conferences and journals. His work has been featured by prominent news outlets such as WIRED magazine and the Daily Mail. In 2022, he received the ISC2 Global Achievement Award for Excellence in Cybersecurity. He is based in the Seattle area and works for Microsoft as an applied scientist in the ads fraud division.
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Authorship attribution and obfuscation

In this section, we will discuss exactly what authorship attribution is and the incentives for designing attribution systems. While there are some very good reasons for doing so, there are some nefarious ones as well; we will therefore also discuss the importance of obfuscation to protect against attacks by nefarious attackers.

What is authorship attribution?

Authorship attribution is the task of identifying the author of a given text. The fundamental idea behind attribution is that different authors have different styles of writing that will reflect in the vocabulary, grammar, structure, and overall organization of the text. Attribution can be based on heuristic methods (such as similarity, common word analysis, or manual expert analysis). Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have also made it possible to build classifiers that can learn to detect the author of a given text.

Authorship attribution is not a new problem—the...

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Rajvardhan Oak is a cybersecurity expert, researcher, and scientist with a focus on machine learning solutions to security issues such as fake news, malware, and botnets. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Pune, India, and his master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served on the editorial committees of multiple technical conferences and journals. His work has been featured by prominent news outlets such as WIRED magazine and the Daily Mail. In 2022, he received the ISC2 Global Achievement Award for Excellence in Cybersecurity. He is based in the Seattle area and works for Microsoft as an applied scientist in the ads fraud division.
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