Masking your writing style is the practice of altering the way you write to counter author identification by forensic linguistics.
For example:
- You can write with brevity and intent.
- Before publishing a text, you can check it for spelling and grammatical errors to ensure that it does not contain any unique errors that could be traced back to you.
- To identify someone as the author of a text, an adversary can look for samples of that person's writing to use for comparison. To mitigate this, you can avoid keeping unencrypted samples of your writing at home that might be found in a house raid or covert house visit, and generally avoid publishing texts in your name throughout your life.
See Counteracting Forensic Linguistics[1] and Who wrote that?.
Techniques addressed by this mitigation
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Forensics | ||
| Linguistics | You can mask your writing style to mitigate author identification. | |