A young Chinese friend of mine, who spends most of his time online, traced the screen name CTGZ to an e-mail address.
We also study a set of online traces collection mechanisms and discuss their performances in terms of required CPU/RAM resources and introduced network overhead.
The problem is compounded, they say, in a world where many aspects of daily life leave online traces.
The association has been shut down and numerous online traces of the group have been removed following pressure from the UK authorities.
But at least some of the suspects are not your typical hard-core hackers, judging from interviews with two of them and the online traces of others.
We implemented a system for online trace archival and retrieval.
A few, he says, want to delete all online traces of themselves to hide from the C.I.A. or other imagined pursuers.
Data about online traces of activity from Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, blogs, etc., have been used to predict elections and political opinions [3], [4], movie revenues at the box office [5], [6], fluctuations in the stock market [7], and the spreading of influenza [8] [12], to cite a few examples.
This realtime monitoring of a child's accounts could be crucial in gathering data leading to a child's safe return; With over 2000 children going missing daily, free technology that can scour for online traces of missing children is a boon to beleaguered law enforcement officials, as well as frantic parents.
I've talked with survivors and buyers, observed online traces, and scoured the literature.
