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That's certainly true, and also the case in many modern file formats.

For example there's the story of the academic studies with falsified data [1] where forensics on the included excel documents showed they'd gone through and replaced data with "randomized" data (if I remember correctly); there are tons of examples of "redacted" data in pdf docs being visible under the blacked-out rectangles.

I'm not disagreeing with you, btw, such actions are certainly problematic, but hopefully kids will grow up knowing they need to run an export to sanitize their data if they don't want to show the whole world their transaction logs...

[1] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1190568472




While "knowing they need to run an export to sanitize their data" is (unfortunately!) a thing user just Have to Know, a wider issue imo is that we also shouldn't really be encouraging developers to casually assume that users will only interact with their software through their own ordained interfaces.




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