Re: Secret info in Sig file?

Dan Crevier Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:20:14 -0800
And the reason we don't zero it out is performance.  It would be really slow
to have to zero out data whenever we created/grew files.

Dan

On 11/17/2000 7:34 AM, "Andrew R. Schmiechen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm guessing this is the same problem Office 98 had some time ago.  What
> your seeing is remains of deleted files.  Let's see if I've got this
> right... As an example, the File Allocation Table on your drive might be
> 32K, which means no file can be smaller than 32 K.  So what happens here, is
> that the actual data of the sig file is less than 32K, and MS decided not to
> zero the rest of the data that the file encompasses.  So when you view the
> file in a text editor, you see all 32K worth of data.  However, in
> Entourage, it only works with the actual signature data.  Did that make
> sense?  
> 
> In this case, it's not that big of a deal, since you wouldn't share your sig
> file with other people.  But I guess I better go check to see if Word files
> are doing this again.
> 
> -A.
> 
> 
>> From: "Erik J. Barzeski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:14:31 -0500
>> To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Secret info in Sig file?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>   I opened my Signature file (the actual file on my hard disk) in BBEdit
>> today to see if I couldn't make sweeping changes to my 30 or so sigs...
>> 
>>   At the end of the file, I found some interesting information. Here it is
>> (I hope this is ok to post). Some of it does NOT belong in a Signature file.
>> Some of it is personal. Any personal info I've replaced with generic "John
>> Doe" or something... (Watch out, there are lots of invisible characters and
>> such - try pressing the arrow keys through some of the text).
>> 
>> 
>> ************************************************DELE
>> 0Q���
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> Barzeski"h( in one page?Andrei
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>>    Erik J. Barzeski
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