arXiv:2602.16800cs.CRcs.AI2026-02被引 19

大模型可高精度还原匿名用户身份,威胁在线隐私安全。

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs

  • 用大模型直接分析原始文本提取身份特征
  • 在多平台数据中实现高达68%召回率的匹配
  • 适合关注隐私安全与对抗攻击的研究者

我们证明大语言模型可实现大规模在线去匿名化。在完全互联网访问下,该代理仅凭伪名用户资料和对话即可高精度复原 Hacker News 用户与 Anthropic Interviewer 参与者身份,效果相当于人工调查数小时。针对封闭世界场景,我们设计了可扩展的攻击流程:(1)从非结构化文本中提取身份相关特征;(2)通过语义嵌入搜索候选匹配;(3)对候选结果进行推理验证以降低误报。相比传统去匿名化方法(如 Netflix 奖项目),本方法无需结构化数据,可直接处理任意平台原始内容。我们构建三个含真实标签的数据集评估攻击效果:第一组将 Hacker News 与 LinkedIn 账号关联,利用跨平台引用;第二组匹配 Reddit 电影讨论社区用户;第三组将单个 Reddit 用户历史按时间拆分为两个伪名账号进行匹配。在所有场景中,基于 LLM 的方法显著优于经典基线,在90%精确率下达到最高68%召回率,而最优非LLM方法召回率接近0%。结果表明,当前网络匿名保护已形同虚设,需重新审视在线隐私威胁模型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseudonymous individuals, each containing unstructured text written by or about that individual, we implement a scalable attack pipeline that uses LLMs to: (1) extract identity-relevant features, (2) search for candidate matches via semantic embeddings, and (3) reason over top candidates to verify matches and reduce false positives. Compared to classical deanonymization work (e.g., on the Netflix prize) that required structured data, our approach works directly on raw user content across arbitrary platforms. We construct three datasets with known ground-truth data to evaluate our attacks. The first links Hacker News to LinkedIn profiles, using cross-platform references that appear in the profiles. Our second dataset matches users across Reddit movie discussion communities; and the third splits a single user's Reddit history in time to create two pseudonymous profiles to be matched. In each setting, LLM-based methods substantially outperform classical baselines, achieving up to 68% recall at 90% precision compared to near 0% for the best non-LLM method. Our results show that the practical obscurity protecting pseudonymous users online no longer holds and that threat models for online privacy need to be reconsidered.

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