April 02, 2004

Deletions that aren't - M$ style

There's an account here of a delightful little experiment in electronic dumpster-diving. An enterprising hacker crawled all public Micro$oft web sites looking for Office documents that contained interesting data - specifically, text that had been "deleted". The results are predictably entertaining....

Posted by geoff2 at April 2, 2004 02:27 AM
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wish I had to thought to look here and read this at 2am when you posted it, it is a hell of a lot more enjoyable than what I was doing then. Thanks.

Posted by: Susan in St. Paul at April 2, 2004 09:10 PM