[CLUE-Talk] Another reason NOT to use Word: sensitive data unearthed

[Jed S. Baer]

On 15 Aug 2003 18:12:42 -0600
Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:

> Many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive
> corporate or personal information, according to a US computer
> researcher.

Heh. But -- yawn.

Is it only now that the rest of the world is catching on to this? I've
been running `strings` on MS Word docs for about 3 years. It was a few
weeks ago that Tony Blair got tripped up by this.

People actually get paid to write articles like this? I'm in the wrong
line of work.

jed
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... it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
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