Document Forensics

[Mike Schwartz]

"PS" Oct. 16, 2006:
I was reading on the web, and happened across a link to
an old (the original?) article about this
(meaning

http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060721.041455.cfc3f8ea.en.html
)
(or, the thread,

http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20060718.175247.21947943.en.html
)
in Risks Digest:
  http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.83.html#subj12.1
Here is where the link was "from":
   http://www.podval.org/~sds/data.html
I found this an interesting bit of history...
"F Y I"
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com

On 7/20/06, Mike Schwartz <mike.l.schwartz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/18/06, Craig Brooksby <rcbrxb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > First off, let me say "amen"  [...]  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.
> >
> > Thanks --
> >
> > Craig
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]<http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
> >
>
> This may not be exactly what you are looking for
> [...snip...]I did a little bit of checking in to the features of MS-Word,
> for saving
> a .doc file in html format [...]
> It turns out that, their "default" way of creating an html file, is a file
> that has a lot of extra stuff in it [...]
>    On the other hand, if one wants [...]
> plain vanilla ASCII text, then [...]
> "html without annotations"
> format, [...]  I am not sure if saving in that
> format, [...]
> would get rid of all of the "security risk" info about
> non-latest versions -- but I think it would. [...]
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> [...] <Mike.L.Schwartz at gmail.com>
>
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