Document Forensics

[Nathan England]

Abiword is great for reading all the metadata of word documents. In some cases 
it has not displayed the current at all correctly and only old words.

On Tuesday 18 July 2006 11:37, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 11:24 -0700, Craig Brooksby wrote:
> > First off, let me say "amen" to Mike Schwartz's 2c about Linux users
> > generally being kind and helpful to newbies.  PLUG is an outstanding
> > example of that.  :-)
> >
> > OK:  I remember someone out there being involved in computer
> > forensics.  I have to train a bunch of office people on the risks
> > inherent in sending out Word, Excel, and other MS-Office docs, which
> > contain metadata (deleted words and values, etc.),  The recipient,
> > with a little work, can find out what the price was before you made
> > that final change, or who the customer was before you searched and
> > replaced with their name.
> >
> > If anyone out there can share, and if it's not too OT, please give me
> > tips on open-source tools one can use to explore / remove metadata
> > from docs.  And yes, I prefer the OO suite, but these are lawers and
> > law offices, and Word reigns supreme there (and WordPerfect!).
> >
> > I'm Googling, and doing what I can, but I'm looking for the voice of
> > experience, if it is out there.
>
> ----
> been a while since I fooled with this and this is not about Linux
> software at all but I think if you just choose 'Save As...' and do not
> save in 'fast format' - you get a document without any revision
> information whatsoever.
>
> Craig
>
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