Comment on 'The Floppy Did Me In'Comments−dredmorbius12yThe article is short on details, but it sounds to me as if it was (most likely) MS Word Document metadata, rather than the floppy itself, which provided vital clues, though file deletion was another culprit:http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caug... (relevant details near end of article).−joncameron12yThat's what Wikipedia has, and the implication from this Times story http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/techspecial4/05... that it draws from.−dredmorbius12yThanks, good info.
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The article is short on details, but it sounds to me as if it was (most likely) MS Word Document metadata, rather than the floppy itself, which provided vital clues, though file deletion was another culprit:
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caug... (relevant details near end of article).
That's what Wikipedia has, and the implication from this Times story http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/technology/techspecial4/05... that it draws from.
Thanks, good info.