{"id":10258,"date":"2017-11-03T02:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/news-4031\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T02:30:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T10:30:23","slug":"news-4031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/news-4031\/","title":{"rendered":"Word to the wise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

IT pilot fish gets an email from a person who’s a member of a club they both belong to — and while it’s not work-related, it was clearly sent from work.<\/p>\n

“The email had been written as a Word document and, since I wasn’t using a Windows-based computer, I opened it as a text document,” says fish.<\/p>\n

“This allowed me to see not only the note intended for me, but also the document history for all<\/i> the other recent documents opened in Word by that user that day.<\/p>\n

“The person who sent me the email was an attorney. Talk about unintentionally breaching client confidentiality!<\/p>\n

“I contacted her privately and discreetly, and handed her a printout showing some of the things contained in that document history.<\/p>\n

“And in the next email I received from her, the history section made it clear that she was now exiting Word after every document and restarting it before switching to a different document.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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IT pilot fish gets an email from a person who’s a member of a club they both belong to — and while it’s not work-related, it was clearly sent from work.<\/p>\n

“The email had been written as a Word document and, since I wasn’t using a Windows-based computer, I opened it as a text document,” says fish.<\/p>\n

“This allowed me to see not only the note intended for me, but also the document history for all<\/i> the other recent documents opened in Word by that user that day.<\/p>\n

“The person who sent me the email was an attorney. Talk about unintentionally breaching client confidentiality!<\/p>\n

“I contacted her privately and discreetly, and handed her a printout showing some of the things contained in that document history.<\/p>\n

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