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This page contains links to articles about hidden data that has caused embarassment or problems. Only a very small subset of these incidents are published by the press. Many more go undetected or unreported. Studies done by numerous agencies indicate that the occurance rate of hidden data in electronic document is extremely high.

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New items posted 12 June 2008

"Ex-Clintonite sends out press release from new organization with Hillary contact info," CNN Newswire, 7 May 2008.
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Ball, Craig, "Clumsy Redaction Can Spell Negligence," Law Technology News, 25 Feb 2008.
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Weller, Robert, "Report: Official Sites, Not Bloggers, Breaching Army Security," The Associated Press, 22 Aug 2007.
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Jones, Ashby, "Doh! FTC Gaffe Spills Beans on Whole Foods," Wall Street Journal, 16 Aug 2007.
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Rugaber, Christopher S., "Error by FTC Reveals Whole Foods' Trade Secrets," Associated Press, 15 August 2007.
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Stine, Stephen, "Electronic Document Redaction and the FTC," American Bar Association, Undated.
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Cashmore, Pete, "Joost’s Deal Plans Hidden in PDF Presentation," Mashable Social Networking News, 18 May 2007.
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Raimondo, Justin, "Redaction Alert! White House edits Aug. 6 presidential briefing, then claims it's been 'declassified.,'" Antiwar.com Behind the Headlines, 14 April 2004.
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"Military Files Left Unprotected Online," Associated Press, 12 July 2007.
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Hillhouse, R, J.,"Office of Nation's Top Spy Inadvertently Reveals Key to Classified National Intel Budget," thespywhobilledme.com, 3 June 2007.
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Moore, Pete, "The secret Iraq documents my 8-year-old found," Salon.com 18 may 2007.
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Acohido, Byron, "Cyberspies exploit Microsoft Office," USA TODAY, 23 Apr 2007.
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Nakashima, Ellen, "U.S. Exposed Personal Data," Washington Post, 21 Apr 2007
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Chan, Wade-Hahn, "Census Bureau accidentally exposes personal data," FCW, 8 Mar 2007.
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Bloys, David, "The Truth About Redaction," News for Public Officials, undated.
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Walker, Jessica M., "What's a Little Metadata Mining Between Colleagues?," Daily Business Review, 21 April 2006.
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Burt, Brandon, "So You’re Thinking of Becoming a Cheat," Salt Lake City Weekly, 17 Aug 2006.
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OFFICE WATCH, Vol. 11 No. 33, 17 Aug 2006.
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Brewin, Bob, "Navy: Exposed personal data was Katrina-related," FCW, 27 Jun 2006.
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Liptak, Adam, "Prosecutors Can't Keep a Secret in Steroid Case," New York Times, 23 Jun 2006.
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McCullagh, Declan, "AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit," CNet News, 30 May 2006.
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Ewalt, David M., "When Words Come Back From The Dead," Forbes.com, 13 Dec 2005.
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Ferguson, Iain, "Hit send...and regret it," ZDNet Australia, 4 Nov 2005.
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Wait, Patience, "White House accidentally exposes data in PDF file," GCN Magazine, 5 Dec 2005.
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Lederer, John, Discussion regarding Microsoft Marketing Memo, American Bar Association, 28 Mar 2004.
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Zeller, Tom, Jr., "Beware Your Trail of Digital Fingerprints," New York Times, 7 Nov 2005.
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Wait, Patience, and Onley, Dawn S., "Document security flap at U.N. causes uproar," GCN Magazine, 25 Oct 2005.
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Millman, Rene', "Expert blasts Home Secretary email blunder," SC Magazine, 16 Sep 2005.
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Sturgeon, Will, "Blunder in Word shows government terror doubts, When will they learn?," Silicon.com, 16 Sep 2005.
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Leyden, John, "Pentagon uber-hacker rap sheet spills attach details," The Register, 11 July 2005.
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Hamburger, Tom, "Nonpartisan Testimony Gets White House Edit," Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2005.
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Jesdanum, Anick, "Military Mistake caused data leak," Associated Press, 2 May 2005.
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Hayes, Simon, "Canberra crackdown on Office leaks," Austrailian IT News, 20 May 2004.
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Foss, Kurt, "PDF Secrets Revealed: PDF file redaction snafu exposes agents' identities," Planet PDF, undated.
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Foss, Kurt, "Washington Post's scanned-to-PDF Sniper Letter More Revealing Than Intended," Planet PDF, 26 October 2002.
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Jardin, Xeni, "P2P in the Legal Crosshairs," Wired News, 15 March 2004.
Note: Skip to paragraph 5 to see why we listed this article.
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Shankland, Stephen and Ard, Scott, "Document shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA," CNET News, March 4, 2004.
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Smith, Richard M., "Microsoft Word bytes Tony Blair in the butt," Computer Bytes Man Website, June 30, 2003.
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Johnson, Nick, "Alcatel [Expletive Deleted] Up Bigtime," Morons in the News, Apr. 14, 2001.
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"Danish Prime Minister Gets Bitten by Word," The Sydney Morning Herald (smh.com.au), January 13, 2004.
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Poulsen, Keven, "Justice e-sensorship gaffe sparks controversy", Security Focus, 22 October 2003.
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McCarthy, Michael J. "Beware, 'Invisible Ink' Inside Computer Files May Reveal Your Secrets." Wall Street Journal (Eastern Ed), Vol. 236, Issue 78 (October 20, 2000). p. A1.