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Smith</a> downloaded the dossier - which was put on the web in both Word and PDF format - and decided to try and find out the authors. </p><p>Smith wrote a small program to retrieve the revision logs and found four names and information regarding who had revised the file and in which order it was revised. He was also able to spot the point at which the file was copied to a floppy. </p><p> During the inquiry in the last week of June into efforts to drum up support for the war, Alastair Campbell of the UK Communications Information Centre had to explain the dossier plagiarism and details of the revision log. </p><p> The dossier, which was also cited by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in an address to the United Nations, earned the government and Prime Minister Tony Blair plenty of flak after Cambridge University politics lecturer Dr Glen Rangwala <a href="http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2003/msg00457.html">noticed that a portion had been plagiarised</a> from a 10-year-old US research paper. <br clear="all" /><ISLANDAD> <SCRIPT> <!-- // var b;var greater = 0 ;name = navigator.appName; ver = parseInt(navigator.appVersion); var agt = navigator.userAgent; if (agt.indexOf('Macintosh')==-1) { if (name == 'Netscape' && ver >= 4) { b = 1; } else if (name == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' && ver >= 4) { b = 2; } else { b = 0; } if (b == 1) { var toolkit = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); var size = toolkit.getScreenSize(); width = self.innerWidth; if (width >= 780) greater = 1; } else if (b == 2) { if (document.body.clientWidth >= 780) greater = 1; } if (greater == 1) { document.write("<br clear='all' /><style type='text/css'>@media print {.nopr {display:none}}</style><div class='nopr'><table cellpading='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right' width='300'><tr valign='top'><td> </td> <td align='right'><font size='-1' color='#666666'><strong>advertisement</strong></font></td></tr><tr valign='top'> <td nowrap> </td><td bgcolor='#ffffff' align='center' valign='middle'>");document.write("<IFRAME WIDTH='300' HEIGHT='250' MARGINWIDTH='0' MARGINHEIGHT='0' HSPACE='0' VSPACE='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' SCROLLING='no' BORDERCOLOR='#000000' SRC='http://campaigns.f2.com.au/html.ng/cat=technology&ctype=story&subcat=itnews&site=age&adspace=300x250'><SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JavaScript1.1' SRC='http://campaigns.f2.com.au/js.ng/cat=technology&ctype=story&Params.richmedia=yes&subcat=itnews&site=age&adspace=300x250'></SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT><A HREF='http://campaigns.f2.com.au/click.ng/cat=technology&ctype=story&Params.richmedia=yes&subcat=itnews&site=age&adspace=300x250'><IMG SRC='http://campaigns.f2.com.au/image.ng/cat=technology&ctype=story&Params.richmedia=yes&subcat=itnews&site=age&adspace=300x250' HEIGHT='250' WIDTH='300' BORDER='0'></A></NOSCRIPT></IFRAME>");document.write("</td></tr><tr valign='top'><td> </td><td nowrap align='left'><font size='-1' color='#666666'><strong>advertisement</strong></font></td></tr></table></div>"); } } // --> </SCRIPT></ISLANDAD></p><p> <a href="http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm">Smith's analysis</a> showed a reference to cic22 which he deduced as being the Communications Information Centre. </p><p> From there on, it was easy to identify the authors and their positions in government ranks by reverting to Dr Rangwala and British journalists. The Word version of the document has now been removed from the British government site. </p><p> This is not the first time that public use of Word documents has led to red faces. Criminals have been caught because they used Office. 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