Online Document Search Reveals Secrets

Posted by simoniker on Friday August 15, 2003 @09:34AM from the when-is-delete-not-delete? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist is reporting that many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher. Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely available software tools and some basic programming techniques." Update: 08/16 19:06 GMT by H : The story is originally from Crypto-gram, not New Scientist.

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Job Recruiters by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-15 09:49 · Score: 5, Interesting

I have received two such word documents from two seperate job recruiters. The actual companies looking for the employee were hidden in the document, as well as contact information for the person at the company. Screw the middle man