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Xerox's 'Intelligent Redaction' Scanners
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."
I'm sure this will lead to a lot of copiers having "accidental" drownings in their bathtubs and Completely Innocuous single car crashes.
[CLEARANCE RED]
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.]
...it's just a new way to save money on support and service when printers stop printing or blow toner all over the place. "Look at this mess! The first page greys out and then there are only a few faint lines for the next 30 pages!" "Nothing wrong with the printer. That information is simply redacted."
"Life is life." --Laibach
Now I just have to find out how it works so I can print T-shirts that cannot be copied :)
This way when some critical info gets missed in the redaction process, there's no one to blame! So not only will our (I'm usian) gov't be more efficient about hiding stuff from us, no one will have to take the fall if it goes wrong.
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.
man, I feel like mold.
Hi, I'm from the ---ox corporation and I am here to explain how this works:
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!
Monstar L
IRC did that years ago...
<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
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We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I've had one of these devices rigged up so that when I want to send an e-mail, post stuff in a web form or something, I just write it on a piece of paper and scan it, and it does everything else. To be honest, I [REDACTED] recommend it. The [REDACTED] machine is quite good at [REDACTED] everything I [REDACTED] want it to do. I [REDACTED] for one [REDACTED] welcome [REDACTED] our new [REDACTED] photocopier [REDACTED] overlords.
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..."
"Hannibal's plans never work right. They just work." Amy/A-Team
What's to stop it from holding our secrets hostage in an attempt to be given human rights?
I can get rid of all type 1 errs at the penalty of increasing type 2. I can do this on most modern copiers, It consists of unplugging the power cord.
Putting aside the fact that OCR and related AI is still just this side of "not very good,"
As Director of Recognition Technologies for my firm, I would like to disagree with you.
Sadly, I can't.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.