Re: N.B. Microsoft Hidden Text, Oops bad (mentioned in Cryptogram)

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sat Aug 16 2003 - 14:37:50 EDT

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    I failed to notice that Slashdot picked up a New Scientist article on the
    same subject.
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/2042249
    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994057

    I am surprised Simon Byers used antiword and catdoc rather than wvware
    While I am at it I may as well link directly to his report,
    http://www.user-agent.org/word_docs.pdf
    which is yet another example of a some one failing to use the internet
    properly and neglecting to provide html or even text and instead only
    providing a PDF document. I recently read an article which pointed out
    how annoying this is and now I cannot get help getting annoyed about it.

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

    On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:

    > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:11:01 +0100 (BST)
    > From: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
    > To: AbiWord Developer Mailing List <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > Subject: N.B. Microsoft Hidden Text, Oops bad (mentioned in Cryptogram)
    >
    >
    > http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0308.html#8
    > "someone who is even a little bit clever can recover the text, with
    > embarrassing or even damaging results"

    > Alan Horkan
    > http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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