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This isn't the first time this has happened. Several years back, another government agency made the same mistake. On a slow computer, the text would render firs

This isn't the first time this has happened. Several years back, another government agency made the same mistake. On a slow computer, the text would render first, and could be seen for several seconds before the black boxes would appear. Googling around, it seems to be a fairly common mistake, going back to at least 2000. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7272 http://www.securityfocus.com/news/7272 http://cryptome.org/iran-cia/cia-iran-pdf.htm http://cryptome.org/iran-cia/cia-iran-pdf.htm http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12907 http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=12907

pasbesoin 17y ago
In the same vein, if not the same format: Distributing a Word document from which you've not removed change tracking (and/or other metadata). (Or whatever Word calls it; it's been a while.) I had to correct my teammates on this one, a while back (and yes, the documents were going to external clients). Nothing novel; the problem's been in the news repeatedly. Nonetheless, people -- even "technical" -- still don't get it right. (I encouraged them to go further and switch to PDF format for the distribution, but they wouldn't.)