17 maio 2004

TECNOSFERA

Censored words unmasked: US intelligence exposed as student decodes Iraq memo.
Armed with little more than an electronic dictionary and text-analysis software, Claire Whelan, a graduate student in computer science at Dublin City University in Ireland, has managed to decrypt words that had been blotted out from declassified documents to protect intelligence sources. [...]
"the most important conclusion of this work is that censoring text by blotting out words and re-scanning is not a secure practice".