07 October 2010

Not knowing the tool, again

The same situation came up again in a policy document.
The role of Dr. Feaver in preparing the strategy document came to light through a quirk of technology. In a portion of the document usually hidden from public view but accessible with a few keystrokes, the plan posted on the White House Web site showed the document's originator, or "author" in the software's designation, to be "feaver-p."
Dr. Feaver had not necessarily wanted to be identified publicly, but he was, because he was embedded in the metadata, which I guess originated in an MSWord document that was subsequently saved in a PDF format.

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