How writing patterns, online activities, and other unintentional identifiers can be used in cyber offense and defense.
As we move throughout our digital lives, we unknowingly leave traces — writing styles, cultural references, behavioral signatures — that can be compiled to form a profile of our online personas.
These identifiers are different from physical identifiers such as fingerprints, faces, handwriting, DNA, and voice, all of which allow law enforcement to trace crimes back to offenders and enable biometric authentication tools. But physical identifiers are often irrelevant when it comes to tracking criminals in the digital realm, where non-physical traits can prove useful.
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