Re: How do they get any work done?

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:15:29 +0000, felmon davis wrote:

> we told the colleague about his visible BCC: data. I know this all has
> something to do with Windows's OLE mechanisms but this all struck me as
> way too bizarre! I am not a Windows user and the ones I know cannot speak
> knowledgeably about these things. it is truly frightening that one can
> open a document in Word and have such all-round security and privacy
> breaches!

Reminds me of the (old?) *.doc files that would retain information about
deleted text. You could literally search such a document using strings
and find out what was there before.

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