It has been a few years since I was involved in optical character
recognition research but the most advanced algorithms then could not find
characters without knowing font size and line location in advance. It does
not take any effort to create writing that is still readable by humans
but far beyond machine reco
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, N�rman W�dders wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:15:34 -0500
> Frederick M Avolio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled:
>
> Mimesweeper is supposed to be a very nice product but can it analyse a
> bitmap file or all graphics formats which are commonplace in email
> attachments.
>
> lets say I fire up my paintbrush program and draw the sensitive data into
> a bitmap ? can it detect a rogue employee sending Steggoed data in a
> bitmap to their co-conspirators? comments please...
>
> /Norman
>
> | No usable security is 100%. It is a red herring to point out ways
> | around a
> | a security mechanism as a reason to not implement.
> |
> |
> | There are products (Mimesweeper comes to mind, and WorldTalk has
> | something)
> | that look for key words. The idea is not to look for "sensitive
> | information" but to look for email that might contain sensitive
> | information
> | based on certai key words (project names are the most common). The
> | use of
> | such products is to stop the accidental disclosure of sensitive
> | information, often done when people forget about local nicknames
> | (aliases)
> | in their mail user agent.
> |
> | Fred
> |
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