Re: Data hidden in Word documents

From: Meritt James (meritt_jamesat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 22 2003 - 06:13:22 PDT

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    Funny.  How do people think "undo" works, anyway?
    
    Jim
    
    Harlan Carvey wrote:
    > 
    > All,
    > 
    > I thought this might be of interest to the group...
    > 
    > 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
    > 
    > Windows versions of the tools mentioned are available:
    > AntiWord - http://antiword.cjb.net
    > catdoc   - http://webaugur.com/wares/files
    > 
    > I thought I would put that out there for all to see...
    > 
    > Thanks,
    > 
    > Harlan
    > 
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