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by acdha 3480 days ago
How many de-anonymization schemes have withstood more than casual attacks? There's so much stock data available that I wouldn't want to bet against someone using historical data to de-anonymize a stock and then place a bet using insider information. The use of ML would even give plausible deniability – just imagine a prosecutor thinking about the odds of successfully arguing that your model couldn't have produced that result?