Re: Document Forensics

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Author: Craig White
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Document Forensics
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.

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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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