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In WoT, New Search Engine Seeks Hidden Vulnerabilities
Severely EFL. All you technical types go read the article ;-)As part of an effort to anticipate -- and thwart -- the plans of potential terrorists, the Federal Aviation Administration is supporting the development of a new search engine by University at Buffalo researchers that is designed to detect "hidden" information that can be gleaned from public Web sites. The UB team recently completed an initial prototype system, designed explicitly to enable searches for "hidden" information within the 9/11 Commission Report. The system permits users to find the best trail of evidence through many documents that connects two or more apparently unrelated concepts. Funded by the FAA, as well as by the National Science Foundation specifically for anti-terrorism applications, the UB project is based on Unintended Information Revelation, or UIR, a search technique designed to uncover hidden information. The premise of UIR is that pieces of information that by themselves appear to be innocent may be linked together to reveal inadvertently highly sensitive data. A more robust prototype is expected to be delivered to FAA for evaluation by the end of the year. Posted by: trailing wife 2005-06-18 |
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