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by shagie·8y ago·view on hn ↗
You might find De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry ( http://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_deano... ) an interesting read.

I suspect that coding style guides are detectable in compiled output too.

As an aside, a bit that caught my eye here:

> This material is based on work supported by the ARO (U.S. Army Research Office) Grant W911NF-14-1- 0444, the DFG (German Research Foundation) under the project DEVIL (RI 2469/1-1), and AWS in Education Research Grant award.

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>I suspect that coding style guides are detectable in compiled output too.

I strongly doubt that (while I concur that source coding style is often recognizable).

More or less a decompiler (when it works properly) attempts to interpret the machine code and translate it into the source. In order to do so, it must have some "templates" corresponding to regognizable "patterns" in the code, so the source derived from the decompilation will reflect these templates and not the "original".