Dial Home Docs

[mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)]

There's a couple ways to go about this.  I like using the JavaScript
inside PDFs to do this.  Just have it reference an external item and
you're good to go!

I'd like to see how this can be done with Word docs...

- Mick

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com> wrote:
> I recently had a conversation with an author about webbugs, and it brought
> another idea to mind. I seem to remember John Strand saying something about
> Val Smith doing something with detecting insider threats by leaking a
> document and seeing who opens it. (sorry I can't remember more).
>
> Here is the question, anyone know how to make a doc/docx/pdf load something
> from an external site so you can at least find the ip of someone who opened
> the document?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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