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Wherefore Art Thou R3579X?: Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography

By Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, Jon Kleinberg
Communications of the ACM, December 2011, Vol. 54 No. 12, Pages 133-141
10.1145/2043174.2043199
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In a social network, nodes correspond to people or other social entities, and edges correspond to social links between them. We describe a family of attacks such that it is possible to learn whether edges exist or not between specific targeted pairs of nodes.

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