Seriously Word, WTF
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No personal information found?
Here's a screenshot of the diff for this file from Visual Studio. What the fuck do you call this, Word? (I put in a fake name for this example, but Word seems to default to whatever name is attached to your Microsoft account.)
Fuck.
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@blakeyrat
That's not personal information within the file. It's metadata on the file
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One "Microsoft Word Tips" or whatever site recommends saving to RTF as a quick way of removing metadata. Uh. Nope. RTF has metadata too! Apparently!
Which I don't mind really. What I do mind is Word lying about it.
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LibreOffice worked to get rid of the meta-data, but I didn't know it worked because it also did something that prevented Visual Studio from updating the diff. So. This whole thing has been a pain in my ass.
I wonder if MS would give me a bounty for reporting this.
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This is why you should create RTF files by hand in your favourite text editor, of course.
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It is not only word but all office formats who leek usernames.
Maybe someone should file a GDPR complaint
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@blakeyrat said in Seriously Word, WTF:
I wonder if MS would give me a bounty for reporting this.
Heh.
Well, they do have the :) :( buttons to submit feedback. It's worth a try.
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I bet :) goes to their queue for their marketing department to tweet about. :( gets filtered to their spam folder.
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@the_quiet_one said in Seriously Word, WTF:
I bet :) goes to their queue for their marketing department to tweet about. :( gets filtered to their spam folder.
This assumes they have a spam folder at all and it isn't just dropped at the server.
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@tsaukpaetra they could've saved electricity by dropping it at the sender.
