Online document search reveals secrets Posted by Scott Manning on August 18, 2003 | Comments (0)

Blackmail, anyone?

Many documents published online may unintentionally reveal sensitive corporate or personal information, according to a US computer researcher.

Simon Byers, at AT&T's research laboratory in the US, was able to unearth hidden information from many thousands of Microsoft Word documents posted online using a few freely available software tools and some basic programming techniques.

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