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To: zonder who wrote (14316)	12/3/2004 1:29:58 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 20773

Yeah, I thought it was interesting. This type of analysis can be very telling. I'd read an article a few months back about companies introducing subtle changes into documents to find out who was leaking stories: they'd add an extra space here, a missing comma there, a typo here, spelling variant there... that kind of thing not to be noticed unless you had all the versions of the document to compare in front of you. You then distribute them to people and key each alteration in each document to just one person in a group who would have that variant. With clever factoring, you look in the papers for traces that were cut and paste from your documents. These become signatures and allow you to trace the leak. Happily, the underdogs (us) can use these tricks too.