Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners 154
coondoggie writes "Xerox today touted software it says can scan documents, understand their meaning and block access to those sensitive or secure areas so that prying eyes cannot read, copy or forward the information. Xerox and researchers from its Palo Alto Research Center debuted "Intelligent Redaction," new software that automates the process of removing confidential information from any document. The software includes a detection tool that uses content analysis and an intelligent user interface to protect sensitive information. It can encrypt only the sensitive sections or paragraphs of a document, a capability previously not available, Xerox said."
They will know too much for their own good. (Score:5, Funny)
paranoia (Score:0, Funny)
Welcome Troubleshooters,
The computer has just scanned in this manual that only you may read on your new experimental weaponary:
Attachment: Manual.pdf
Manual.pdf:
[This has been deleted for security reasons.]
That's not intelligent.... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh nifty... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow.. automated blame-shifting! (Score:4, Funny)
That said, I'm amazed at what modern Ai can do. It's not clear, from this rather thin article, how much this system depends on human input to prevent mistakes. There must be some kind of training process. What is the state of these kinds of systems? I remember from some AI courses I took years ago, that they worked well but inevitably someone would end up calling someone else something stupid. Then the machine would start skipping important bits and the coders would look like idiots.
That was hard and a real stretch there at the end. blah.
Re:Details please. (Score:3, Funny)
First, the machine ----------- in your documen-- and using --------------eats--------ba----------------bies and of course you can be ---% satisfied that we will ----- your documents and your -------- is very important to us! Hope that helps ----------- up!
Obligatory bash.org quote... (Score:5, Funny)
<Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars
<Cthon98> ********* see!
<AzureDiamond> hunter2
<AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me
<Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> *******
<Cthon98> thats what I see
<AzureDiamond> oh, really?
<Cthon98> Absolutely
<AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2
<AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you?
<Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that
<Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as *******
<AzureDiamond> awesome!
<AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw?
<Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ******'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw
<AzureDiamond> oh, ok.
Source : http://bash.org/?244321
Waiting for the new security announcements (Score:3, Funny)
1. Read radiation gauge and ensure it shows no more than (deleted for reasons of national security).
2. Press the (deleted for intellectual property reasons) button.
3. Watch carefully for (deleted for reasons of national security).
If meltdown cannot be avoided, (deleted for reasons of excessive gore and violence).
I've been trying this out (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Automatically redacts the same content... (Score:4, Funny)
Great, the next cracker related headlines will be about some Chinese kiddie who breaks into a copier in a remote corridor of the DoD. Yay, Xerox.
But this list thing actually shows, that the summary:
is totally bogus.
On the other side, this could be a wonderful Clippy revenant:"It looks like you're scanning a secret..."
If it's that intelligent (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Disaster in the making (Score:3, Funny)
Re:User Manual = Redacted (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Defining the variables (Score:3, Funny)
As Director of Recognition Technologies for my firm, I would like to disagree with you.
Sadly, I can't.