Rick Welykochy wrote: > Sluggers, this is OT, but valuable ammo in the battle for the desktop! I find this is valuable in pointing out the problems that can occur with proprietary software when the user has no control over features. > The Privacy Foundation has just released an advisory > on an issue that we discovered earlier this month > in Microsoft Word. We found that it is possible to > embedded "Web bugs" in Word documents. .... > The complete advisory is available at the Foundation's > Web site: > http://www.privacyfoundation.org/advisories/advWordBugs.html > A demonstration "bugged" document for Word 97 and Word 2000 > has been set up at: > http://www.privacycenter.du.edu/demos/bugged.doc Well this is the best thing since sliced bread and loadable modules! I tried it out and here is what I got. I have removed my machine and replced it with Me! *** Gotcha! *** This web bug has been fetched 4641 times. Last requested by: 1. Me! my second try to see how busy this is. 2. qdeckms.pearl.navy.mil 3. adsl-64-160-12-44.dsl.ls 4. 199.224.2.132 5. Me!, my first try. etc.. I wonder if the person at the mil site knows how useful even small snippets of info can be. It's also the first time I have seen an !X in a traceroute. DoN-gw.customer.ALTER.NET (157.130.227.58) 392.234 ms !X 394.153 ms !X * man traceroute says: "!X (communication administratively prohibited)" Ummm. Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 URL: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~michael-lake/ Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
