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Networking: Foiling e-document hackers
Oppressive bosses want to scan every document you make at work.
A worker sends an office colleague an e-mail with a corporate document attached, but the seeming routine message turns out to harbor a malicious passenger, because the attachment contains hidden pornographic images that were inserted by a hacker during it's transmission over the Internet. When the document is opened by a female employee, she files a lawsuit for sexual harassment.
This particular case is hypothetical, but the situation is real, experts told UPI's Networking. By Gene Koprowski