[Hidden-tech] Microsoft Office suite vs. other options

Brian Johnson brian at sherbang.com
Sun Dec 13 13:57:44 EST 2009


On 12/13/2009 12:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> There is also the case where a contractor embeded the quote from a
> sub-contractor and the embeded quote was discovered (both the lower
> price AND the name of the subcontractor (guess how that ended up).  The
> law firm whose brief contained the complete in-house history of the
> development of the document. MS-Word documents can be *toxic* for
> almost *any* business.  It is only luck and the fact that most people
> who are sent these documents are not clever enough to dig into the
> documents beyond the 'surface', because much of the time the senders of
> these documents are not clever enough to 'sanitize' them before sending
> them.  These sorts of problems can't happen with PDF attachments, since
> PDF files are a 'concrete' version, in *exactly* the same way as a
> hard-copy is, since a MS-Word to PDF converter is little more than
> effectively a print-to-file type of operation.
>    

WRT PDFs.  This isn't always entirely true.  Redacted information was 
able to be retrieved from government released pdfs because the redaction 
was done as black overlays over the text that was still in the pdf.  
However, the print to pdf option in word should be safe in most cases, 
and is definitely safer then sending the word document itself.


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