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UK government gets bitten by Microsoft Word
By Sam Varghese
July 2 2003
The British government is unlikely to use Microsoft Word for creating official
documents which are to be released publicly, after the authors of the
controversial dossier put out by Britain in February this year were
identified by examining the information contained in a Word version of the
file.
IT researcher Richard M. Smith downloaded the dossier - which was put on the
web in both Word and PDF format - and decided to try and find out the
authors.
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.
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.
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 noticed that a portion had been plagiarised from a 10-year-old US
research paper.
Smith's analysis showed a reference to cic22 which he deduced as being the
Communications Information Centre.
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.
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. Companies in
negotiations have been stunned to find their opponents seemed to have insider
knowledge and public officials have been embarrassed when early "unrefined"
versions of their statements have been published in detail.
--
Yannis Corovesis (Phd Computer Science)
Networking Unit Director
National Research Center 'DEMOKRITOS'
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<h1><headline>UK government gets bitten by Microsoft Word</headline></h1>
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<byline>By Sam Varghese</byline><br>
<date>July 2 2003</date><br>
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</bod><p></p><p>The British government is unlikely to use Microsoft Word
for creating official documents which are to be released publicly, after
the authors of the controversial dossier put out by Britain in February this
year were identified by examining the information contained in a Word version
of the file. </p><p>
IT researcher <a href="http://www.computerbytesman.com/";>Richard M. 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.
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<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. Companies
in negotiations have been stunned to find their opponents seemed to have
insider knowledge and public officials have been embarrassed when early "unrefined"
versions of their statements have been published in detail.</p>
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