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Re: data hidden in Word docs, revisited
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  • To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  • Subject: Re: data hidden in Word docs, revisited
  • From: H Carvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  • Date: 29 Aug 2003 18:50:32 -0000
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In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Geoff,

>It the Word "fastsave" function.  It doesn't strip out
any deleted material
>so a utility such as catdoc can trivially extract
deleted text.

This isn't deleted text, though the revision log *is*
Unicode.  I've been running the MS-DOS version of
catdoc (0.93, I believe), whilst purusing the man page,
but haven't been able to get catdoc to display the
revision log, which *is* seen by strings.exe.

Harlan

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