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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by haswell on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:51AM (#29840511)
Just speculating here, but I wonder if their point is that they went out of their way to create a PDF that is as unusable as possible, and that Word 2010 is somehow required to create such a PDF.

A few simpler explanations:

- Equifax IT hasn't rolled out modern O365 apps

- The form was created a long time ago, and has not been updated

Regardless of the exif data, I do believe that friction is absolutely a feature in this process, but I also think the Word 2010 angle is tenuous at best.

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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by wonderhamster on Saturday January 08, 2022 @01:42PM (#29854715)
I've worked on these kinds of systems, but not this one explicitly. There is always a discussion about how to make it(legally) more difficult for users to do something you don't want them to do. It's not paranoia, it's reality.
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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by varenc on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:34PM (#29842866)
No angle or point with that comment. Just interesting! I like looking at exif data. And I think there should be more awareness around what it often leaks.
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Re:Tell HN: Salary data is for sale by mesozoic on Friday January 07, 2022 @02:06PM (#29843313)
Probably it's buried in a ticket deep in the feature requests lists and has zero potential revenue impact (or negative) so it isn't prioritized.
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