full-disclosure - OT: Tool for sanitizing MS office documents?

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: OT: Tool for sanitizing MS office documents?

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Clement Dupuis:
>
> > This is why so many companies have adopted the PDF format for document
> > exchange.  What you see is what it is, no hidden code or revision bits.
>
> This view is a bit too simplistic.  PDF files can contain layers, and
> the text that is nicely covered by those black rectangle may still be
> present in the document.
>
> In general, PDF documents are not too bad an idea, though.  At least
> it avoids the embarrassment of embedded OLE objects which contain far
> more information that is actually visible in the parent document (and
> I don't think Microsoft's tool addresses this because it would
> castrate the document).


I recall the tool being requested, I thought it was a tool developed by
micheal <sp?> zewlski <sp?>.

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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