"A security hole affecting old copies of some Microsoft Office applications may have left a legacy of data leaks with the potential to reveal sensitive information and weaken security on government and commercial Web sites around the world.

"The Google search engine reports that there are over half a million MS Word .doc files presently available for download from dot-com Web sites. Of these, a small but significant percentage have been created using versions of the software known to create 'leaky' documents.

"First discovered in 1998, the bug causes random fragments of data from previously deleted files to be included in areas of a document that are otherwise unused. This random data can contain virtually anything that might have once been stored on the creator's computer, including passwords, sections of other documents, correspondence, etc."

Is this hang-it-out-there data promiscuity problem worse or better than Word docs also being potential pustules of contagion in terms of viruses?

(In a mood. Justified.)
10:39:12 PM |   

Necessary settings:

X Check this box to enable mirroring on the site described below.
Server: www.servername.net
Port: 80
Path: /cgi-bin/mt-xmlrpc.cgi
Blog ID: 1
Username: <MT username>
Password: <MT passwd>

where Blog ID can be found by looking at the end of the URL used to post MT entries in the usual way via the MT web interface.

Granted, this is very much like the way the standalone tools Radio Poster and BlogApp are set up. Options, options!
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