NSA: HOWTO "sanitize" Word and PDF files

By at 2:04 am Saturday, Jan 21

Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists has posted the US National Security Agency's guide to Sanitizing Word and PDF docs.
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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