Thanks Alan, this is good info. Any chance we could get an excerpt of the script with these regular expressions so we could run it over a case before submission?
-- mark Alan Burlison wrote: > As I'm sure everyone can understand, the need to protect Sun > confidential information has not changed. The objective has always > been to protect Sun's IP by trying to ensure that we are not releasing > confidential information. Because the final checks are automated, > there will always be a potential for false positives. > > The code currently contains two sets of triggers, the following list > of specific triggers (regular expressions that are all case-insensitive): > > company\s+conf[aei]denti?al > contains?\s+conf[aei]denti?al\s+and\s+priv[ei]l[ei]ged > engineering\s+only > > And a set of triggers that looks for: > > Sun\b(?:\s+Micro(?:systems)?\b)?,?(?:\s+:Inc(?:orporated)? > > followed within 20 characters by one of: > > conf[aei]denti?al > priv[ie]leged > propri[ae]t[ao]ry > > The older script looked for the (case-insensitive) strings 'Sun > Proprietary' or 'Sun Confidential'. Whilst the new patterns > undoubtedly match more frequently than the old ones, they are largely > equivalent. Also, it is clear that both "Sun Confidential" and "Sun > Confidential" mean the same thing, yet the old script would have > flagged the first phrase (one space between "Sun" and "Confidential") > and ignored the second (two spaces between "Sun" and "Confidential"). > > As requested, we are releasing this information to make it easier for > people to avoid inadvertently triggering the checks. I'll also update > the REDACTED.txt file so that it includes the phrase that triggered, > that will make it easier to figure out why a particular case has been > redacted. > -- <http://www.sun.com> * Mark A. Carlson * Sr. Architect *Systems Group* Phone x69559 / 303-223-6139 Email Mark.Carlson at Sun.COM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/attachments/20091001/a4f694a7/attachment.html>
