Re:Wikileaks is offering tech firms CIA files first
by sarmstr5 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @01:24PM
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Software already exists to indentify common PII like credit card numbers and social security numbers (need it for HIPAA requirements) and besides probably any freshman programmer could build a simple regex to find simple PII. So the most likely excuses are either complete incompetence or utter apathy to protect that info, not lack of manpower.
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Re:Wikileaks is offering tech firms CIA files first
by problems on Thursday March 09, 2017 @01:44PM
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We're not talking credit card numbers, SIN numbers are just a series of a few numbers which may match many, many unrelated things. I'd have to see the specific case to really say yes or no to that one. Many of the leaks they get are not in text format at all, they're in PDF images, OCR can sometimes do the job, but not always with high accuracy.
If you'd like to volunteer that skill, they may be open to accepting it. It's entirely possible they just don't have developers with such abilities in their arsenal. You might try their IRC channels and such if you'd consider it.