PDF files often reveal more than they should

Gepubliceerd op 1 mei 2020 om 13:27

If you are not careful when converting text files into a PDF file, you may reveal more than planned. This happens not only to home users or the secretary of a small company, but also in the control centers of world politics Free pdf tools.

For example, recently at the White House in Washington, DC, where a speech by US President George W. Bush was published. Bush's "Plan for Victory in Iraq", the focus of a speech at the Naval Academy, has been published on the web as a PDF file. However, the file also contained information about who the actual author of the plan was: Peter Feaver, professor of political science at Duke University in North Carolina, and an advisory member of the National Security Council since June.

Another PDF file released by troops stationed in Iraq dealt with the death of an Italian agent who was shot dead by US soldiers in March after a journalist was released from hostage. The file was "editorially revised" (in other words: censored), but simply copying and pasting the text content into a new file revealed the removed content.

A UN report on an assassination attempt that killed Lebanese politician Rafiq Hariri caused a stir in October. The PDF file posted on the web showed that the names of certain Syrian officials had been removed from the document before publication.

PDF is a file format that is also suitable for the web. However, the file must be checked thoroughly before it is made available to third parties. Information believed to be deleted from the original document, such as a Word file, can also be transferred to the PDF file created from it. Therefore you should, for example, save Word files to a new file with "Save As ...". Then check the file properties, edit them if necessary and create the PDF file from this Free pdf to word converter tool. Also check the PDF file created for information not intended for third parties.

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