NSA Sanitize PDF/Word Documents

Posted on February 19, 2007 by Captain Johnny Bowen | Printable Reference

A guide/how-to by the NSA! This will show you how you can sanitize and clean up your documents before sending them off.

Q: Why would anyone need to “sanitize” a word doc?
A: Because anything you type into that document and then delete is still saved within the word .doc file. So if you were to type some company secrets then later on delete certain sentences/sections and send it to a competitor they could potentially recover those deleted secrets. O.o

I’m sure you guys out there can figure out many ways to use these sanitizing techniques…

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