Hello Libreoffice Team, I have learned about metadata-induced privacy leak issue previously, and have been accustomed to wiping every file of metadata after final edition. A few days ago I encountered an accidentally unbleached odt file when aimlessly scanning my disk with exiftool, and I was shocked to find a line titled "generator", in a format just like, "LibreOffice/[Libreoffice version]$[OS and arch] LibreOffice_project/[a long string made up of numbers and letters]".
I am worried, since while usually keeping the cleaning habit, I had the concept that as a free software known for privacy-focus, libreoffice documents would not contain any telemetry or sensitive data by default. However this time, I could not get rid of this generator line even with "Apply User Data" tickbox unchecked, and at last I had to ask to violent means such as mat2. So, after some googles in vain, I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what does this [a long string made up of numbers and letters] means, and if this line contains anything like a hardware identifier or such. Eager for your early reply. Sincerely Yours -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
