15 Mar
1998
15 Mar
'98
3:48 p.m.
Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> wrote:
I know some folks who work at Microsoft and everything
they send me from
their
"work" address is a several-hundred-line
MS-Word document that is, of
course, MIME-encoded. Typically I can decode it and dump the file to
find the single line of real text that they thought they were sending me.
For those few of us who might also check their Word documents in
binary, you'll find that Word also stores quite a bit of its undo
buffers in the saved document. Yes, no kidding. I've received
letters and contracts from people who didn't realize this.
By studying the binary, you can see their last few revisions. :-)
People often create a "new" letter by revising an old document.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
15 Mar
15 Mar
10:24 p.m.
At 08:48 PM 3/15/98 -0600, you wrote:
Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> wrote:
Most word processors these days will betray your secrets to the scrutiny of
a binary browser. In addition to undo data, most formats will also retain
chunks of old text left after deletion or overwrite. Windows is the
detective's dream, with all kinds of interesting "ghost" data left behind
in the ever more complex file and doc formats, and of course the swap file.
--
David Wollmann |
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com | Support for legacy IBM products.
DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support | Data, document and file conversion for
IBM http://www.ibmhelp.com/ | legacy file and media formats.
I know some folks who work at Microsoft and
everything they send me from
their
"work" address is a several-hundred-line
MS-Word document that is, of
course, MIME-encoded. Typically I can decode it and dump the file to
find the single line of real text that they thought they were sending me.
For those few of us who might also check their Word documents in
binary, you'll find that Word also stores quite a bit of its undo
buffers in the saved document. Yes, no kidding. I've received
letters and contracts from people who didn't realize this.
By studying the binary, you can see their last few revisions. :-)
People often create a "new" letter by revising an old document.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
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