[Rollin' Rog]

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

[Kenny94]

After reading the New York Times Article. I'm checking all my Microsoft Word documents..

[Rollin' Rog]

[x_saosin_x]

can someone explain it more in a nutshell please, hard to get it round my head at this time in mornin.

[loserOlimbs]

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.

[Raziel_Storm]

Well, that is just superb.

[x_saosin_x]

ahh rite.
i see.
thanks

[Perfesser]

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.

[b557557]

ooh, quite spooky actually. anyway, if you have nothing to hide it shouldn't matter should it.

[x_saosin_x]

sure thing

[corygorker]

Thanks for the headsup. That's why I use OpenOffice.
CG.

[Uriel-TOF]

I use this freebie for my word documents.

http://www.docscrubber.com/

[hewee]

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

[loismustdie]

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.

[Uriel-TOF]

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.