[Full-disclosure] Squashing supposed hacker profiling

[J. Oquendo]

All female authors...  Your so called gender guessing mechanism is 
flawed either way you want to cut it. You could try fuzzy math based on 
theories to profile anyone on this list, but unless you have feasible 
and PROVEN without reasonable doubt, its all a guessing game bottom 
line. Anyhow back to security, sociolinguistics is not meant for this list.

According to Dr. Krawetz's Gender Guesser... 
(http://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.html#Analyze)
http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com/
Genre: Informal
  Female = 104
  Male   = 602
  Difference = 498; 85.26%
  Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 116
  Male   = 239
  Difference = 123; 67.32%
  Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://www.darkreading.com/blog.asp?blog_sectionid=342&WT.svl=blogger1_5
Genre: Informal
  Female = 442
  Male   = 555
  Difference = 113; 55.66%
  Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 364
  Male   = 570
  Difference = 206; 61.02%
  Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://invisiblethings.org/papers/joanna-talk_description-CCC04.txt
Genre: Informal
  Female = 218v
  Male   = 1186
  Difference = 968; 84.47%
  Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 414
  Male   = 576
  Difference = 162; 58.18%
  Verdict: Weak MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://www.techsploitation.com/2007/05/31/what-the-hell-was-i-thinking-about-green-libertarians/ 
(text by Sue Lange)
Genre: Informal
  Female = 210
  Male   = 481
  Difference = 271; 69.6%
  Verdict: MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 260
  Male   = 408
  Difference = 148; 61.07%
  Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG

http://thelizardqueen.wordpress.com/2005/06/08/a-thoroughly-and-utterly-girly-blog-post-sorry-4/
Genre: Informal
  Female = 415
  Male   = 559
  Difference = 144; 57.39%
  Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 180
  Male   = 312
  Difference = 132; 63.41%
  Verdict: MALE

REALITY: WRONG


To be fair I had to go to the most feminine place I could think of, even 
then it was iffy.

http://groups.ivillage.com/motherdaughter/
Genre: Informal
  Female = 226
  Male   = 337
  Difference = 111; 59.85%
  Verdict: Weak MALE
Genre: Formal
  Female = 326
  Male   = 314
  Difference = -12; 49.06%
  Verdict: Weak FEMALE

REALITY: MAYBE THE AUTHOR HERE WAS FLAMINGLY GAY

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J. Oquendo
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1383A743
echo infiltrated.net|sed 's/^/sil@/g' 

"Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something." -- Plato


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