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How-To: “Sanitize” Your Documents

Posted in Howto, Tech by Dan at 8:45 am
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I’m sure it is widely known that when you created ANY document on your computer it leaves a digital fingerprint uniquely identifying the computer it was created on.

Time to regain some privacy.

Section 2: Procedures to Sanitize a Word Document
The following steps were tested with MS Word 2000 and Acrobat 5.0 and 6.0. Other recent versions should work similarly. While time-consuming, these steps give the highest confidence that sensitive information is not hidden in the released document. Copying the text and images into a blank document is a good way to manually review a sensitive document, since sections can be copied over one at a time as they are reviewed.

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