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Most formats are bad for this honestly. Most of the MS Office formats have lots of metadata. Printing them to PDFs might actually do a decent job to strip that
by problems 10y ago
Most formats are bad for this honestly. Most of the MS Office formats have lots of metadata.
Printing them to PDFs might actually do a decent job to strip that data. You might have to make sure your PDF printer doesn't add additional metadata though.
Of course, proving authenticity in such a case is a necessity too, no journalist wants to be responsible for publishing fake leaks.