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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (77462)3/30/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Paul:

Check this out - looks like Microsoft has embedded digital fingerprints in their Office software that can be used to track your documents. Scary, huh? ;-)

cnn.com

In particular, you might be interested in the following paragraph:

"The digital fingerprint Smith used is a unique identifying number that Microsoft's Office suite of programs attaches to documents created on a specific computer. By discovering the computer the documents containing Melissa came from, investigators could presumably find the author."

Adam

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