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24 August 2004
Metadata Exposed
Did you know that a typical Word document contains twenty-five different types of hidden metadata? A new website called Metadatarisk.org aims to take the confusion out of these digital “fingerprints” that attach to a Word document each time it is saved.
The site offers, among other things, a downloadable application to search documents for metadata [...]
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21 May 2004
When the Web Bugs Bite
Remember back in 2000 when Web bugs were labeled as the next big threat to online privacy? After a brief media stampede covering the topic and the release of Web bug detecting software by a privacy group, the topic all but disappeared from the news.That is, until recently.
Today Jan Ireland published an article where [...]
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10 May 2004
Redacted Redux
The New York Times is reporting on new software that can be used to identify blacked-out words in confidential documents. The software takes the redacted document, realigns it, and then processes it through a series of filters based on, among other things, word size and semantics. The process works best with monospace fonts such as [...]
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3 May 2004
This Email is Confidential Communication . . .
Who controls an email after you send it to me?
(a) you (the sender)?
(b) me (the recipient)?
In most cases, the answer is (b) me (the recipient). If I receive an email, I can read it, delete it, forward it, or even quote it in a blog. I can print it and post it on [...]
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19 April 2004
l0phtcrack revisited
Way back in 1999 I wrote about l0phtcrack, a hacker tool that could be used to crack Windows NT passwords.
A lot has happened in five years.
Like Kevin Mitnick, l0phtcrack morphed from a hacking tool to a computer security assistant. The software, now called LC 4, is maintained by the security firm @stake. The [...]
