Re: Meta data. . .

From: Alan Horkan <horkana_at_maths.tcd.ie>
Date: Sun Nov 19 2006 - 16:15:10 CET

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Randy Kramer wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:29:01 -0500
> From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Meta data. . .
>
>
> On Sunday 19 November 2006 02:54 am, kelly wrote:
> > Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > One other features you should be extremely careful about in terms of
> > > privacy is "Revisions", as users have mistakenly released information by
> > > leaving in old revisions.
>
> > I thank you all for your time and answering my questions! I feel quite a
> > bit better now.
>
> I just want to reiterate Alan's point about Revisions. (I was embarrassed
> once by this feature in MS Word.)

There is another method - almost too stupid to mention - by which groups
have inadvertantly disclosed information and that is the highlight tool.

Believe it or not people have used the highlight tool to blackout chunks
of text, putting a black mark over black text, and then publishing their
document as PDF. The information although hidden was not gone and could
be easily revealed. In fact I think accessibility features of Acrobat
reader can force the text colours for readability and reveal the
information.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://www.abisource.com

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