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07-Nov-2005, 03:32 PM #1
Beware Your Trail of Digital Fingerprints
Now here's a tip some of you might like, courtesy of the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/07/bu...syahoo&emc=rss
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07-Nov-2005, 05:50 PM #2
After reading the New York Times Article. I'm checking all my Microsoft Word documents..
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07-Nov-2005, 08:33 PM #4
can someone explain it more in a nutshell please, hard to get it round my head at this time in mornin.
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08-Nov-2005, 03:12 AM #5
Basically, if you do something on your PC, it stays there, if the right people get access to your PC, they can tell who wrote what when.
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08-Nov-2005, 06:08 AM #6


Well, that is just superb.
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08-Nov-2005, 06:28 AM #7
ahh rite.
i see.
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08-Nov-2005, 10:46 PM #8
On the plus side of this...this is how they nailed Dennis Rader AKA the BTK Killer. He sent a Word Doc on a disk to the police.
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21-Nov-2005, 06:49 PM #9
ooh, quite spooky actually. anyway, if you have nothing to hide it shouldn't matter should it.
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sure thing
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24-Nov-2005, 04:08 PM #11
Thanks for the headsup. That's why I use OpenOffice.
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09-Apr-2006, 01:49 AM #12
I use this freebie for my word documents.

http://www.docscrubber.com/
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09-Apr-2006, 02:23 AM #13
Not only that there are printers that will hide all that info on the owner etc too.

Is Your Printer Spying On You?

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/

Then other crazy things going on too that needs to stop.

EFF files against AT&T surveillance
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/181

Get ready for Microsoft, cable and phone companies, and quite a few other people to know a lot more about what you do on your computer, thanks to House Bill 2083.
http://www.okgazette.com/news/templa...d=423&zoneid=7
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09-Apr-2006, 07:39 AM #14
But could this not also be used against you? Say your accused of murder, someone could use your computer to make a load of documents that would be incriminating.
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09-Apr-2006, 08:42 AM #15
That info about printers doesn't suprise me because a pdf document will also copy this metadata when a word doc is converted. PDF Converter gives us some control to edit this info.
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