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Re: Data hidden in Word documents
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  • To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  • Subject: Re: Data hidden in Word documents
  • From: Ansgar Wiechers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:40:29 +0200
  • In-reply-to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:13:22AM -0400
  • References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On 2003-08-22 Meritt James wrote:
> Harlan Carvey wrote:
> > Last week, I presented at GMU2003, covering data hiding on a live
> > system.  I focused on Windows, and NTFS.  I even included demos for
> > merging Word and Excel documents together, and pulling metadata from
> > Word documents.
> >
> > Today, I ran across this document regarding Simon Byers' research
> > into data "hidden" in Office documents:
> > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994057
> 
> Funny.  How do people think "undo" works, anyway?

Undo does not work across closing and re-opening a document, so I would
not expect undo-information to be enclosed in the document.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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