Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Confidentiality advice for the clueless
The NSA warns: Putting a black graphic box over confidential information in a PDF does not make the information go away. SCO thought a graphic overlay would nonexist information about companies they were planning to go after in their war on Linux. Oops.
The problem does go deeper than such silliness, though. Some word processing formats contain change histories, and the typist may not be aware of this. If you're doing anything which requires serious confidentiality, plain text is the medium of choice.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 12:32 PM 
