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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Repost or just a big DUH! by jriskin · 2003-08-15 09:58 · Score: 0, Redundant

You mean word documents/[INSERT alternative MS product here] may contain crap you didn't think they did?! NO SH*T...

This has been a problem and reported for years now...

It's called Save As...

Oh? You say end users can't be trusted to understand technology and or can't be trusted to dispose of or not reveal sensitive information? Another...DUH!