I wasn’t aware of this, but this was pretty much exactly my idea, except that the chaff would be targeted to make standard algorithms draw a blank (basically, whenever the algorithm wants something to be sparse, we make it really not sparse.)
Same idea is also in Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbow’s End”, so-called “Friends of Privacy”, and similar idea in Stephenson’s “Anathem”—that variant is termed “bogons”.
I wasn’t aware of this, but this was pretty much exactly my idea, except that the chaff would be targeted to make standard algorithms draw a blank (basically, whenever the algorithm wants something to be sparse, we make it really not sparse.)
Damn, Cory Doctorow, I thought I was clever.
Same idea is also in Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbow’s End”, so-called “Friends of Privacy”, and similar idea in Stephenson’s “Anathem”—that variant is termed “bogons”.