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April 20, 2018 04:05 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/A0RNc9-gT_Q/ai-can-scour-code-to-find-accidentally-public-passwords
AI Can Scour Code To Find Accidentally Public Passwords
An anonymous reader shares a report: Researchers at software infrastructure firm Pivotal have taught AI to locate this accidentally public sensitive information in a surprising way: By looking at the code as if it were a picture. Since modern artificial intelligence is arguably better than humans at identifying minute differences in images, telling the difference between a password and normal code for a computer is just like recognizing a dog from a cat. The best way to check whether private passwords or sensitive information has been left public today is to use hand-coded rules called "regular expressions." These rules tell a computer to find any string of characters that meets specific criteria, like length and included characters.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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