BBC NEWS | Technology | The hidden dangers of documents: "He gathered about 100,000 Word documents from sites on the web and every single one of them had hidden information.
In a research paper about the work Mr Byers wrote that about half the documents gathered had up to 50 hidden words, a third up to 500 words hidden and 10% had more than 500 words concealed within them.
The hidden text revealed the names of document authors, their relationship to each other and earlier versions of documents.
Occasionally it revealed very personal information such as social security numbers that are beloved of criminals who specialise in identity theft."
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