Monday, July 23, 2007

More email leaks

For those that are interested in information diffusion processes: I got an update from Vitor on publicity on our paper on "detecting email leaks" - there have been a dozen or so followups to the new stories I mentioned back in June. Interestingly all of these are in Portugese:

Blogs:
http://alexronald.wordpress.com/2007/06/30/brasileiro-cria-sistema-que-evita-envio-de-e-mail-a-destinatario-errado/
http://idgnow.uol.com.br/seguranca/2007/06/29/idgnoticia.2007-06-29.1623119240
http://bloginfodicas.blogspot.com/2007/06/nesta-ltima-dcada-perodo-em-que-os.html
http://www.rogergoncalves.com/blog/?p=21
http://www.piratadarede.com/blog/?p=1031
http://ouhe.blogspot.com/2007/06/novo-sistema-evita-envio-de-e-mail-para.html
http://videobr.pro.br/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37696&sid=e510424e3ba94063a467a5e5e5970cd3
http://inovabrasil.blogspot.com/2007/07/novo-mtodo-previne-vazamento-de.html

http://mundoetecnologia.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/brasileiro-cria-sistema-que-evita-envio-de-e-mail-a-destinatario-errado/


Research, high-tech and general news websites

http://www.acessasp.sp.gov.br/html/modules/news2/article.php?storyid=31
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?data%5Bid_materia_boletim%5D=7362
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL61241-6174,00.html
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL34417-6174,00.html
http://www.adn-negocios.com/adn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=1
http://pcworld.uol.com.br/noticias/2007/06/29/idgnoticia.2007-06-29.3833885183
http://pe360graus.globo.com/noticias360/matLer.asp?newsId=94336


At least 30 comments on a discussion board, asking the question: "Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person?"
http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Tecnologia/0,,MUL34362-6174,00.html


And some in news Portugal, pretty much echoing the news from Brazil
http://diariodigital.sapo.pt/news.asp?section_id=44&id_news=283432
http://www.wintech.com.pt/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=380

I guess there's some element of "local news" with these, since Vitor's Brazilian, but there's nothing particular about the content of the story that seems especially Brazilian - it's just a technique to avoid a class of email-related errors (and was evaluated, in fact, on the Enron corpus, which is all English.) It's interesting that language is as much of a barrier as it appears to be for the spread of high-tech news.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not to mention just having been cited in Lise Gertoor's invited talk at AAAI 2007.

William Cohen said...

Nice of her! She's on Vitor's committee and was just out here....