I know textmate documents are usually just plaintext, however I have a military client who wants to know if textmate documents have any tracking in them, like microsoft word? For example every word document contains a serial number.
He just wanted to be confident that textmate DOES NOT do anything like this to protect privacy.
I assume it doesn't, but i just wanted to doublecheck.
Thanks!
On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Court K. wrote:
I know textmate documents are usually just plaintext, however I have a military client who wants to know if textmate documents have any tracking in them, like microsoft word? For example every word document contains a serial number.
Nope, they're just text.
You're client can rest assured that Textmate puts absolutely no tracking codes in any of your files unless you put them in yourself :)
On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Derek Belrose wrote:
On Jul 28, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Court K. wrote:
I know textmate documents are usually just plaintext, however I have a military client who wants to know if textmate documents have any tracking in them, like microsoft word? For example every word document contains a serial number.
Nope, they're just text.
You're client can rest assured that Textmate puts absolutely no tracking codes in any of your files unless you put them in yourself :)
Actually there is also the resource fork. AFAIK it stores cursor position and UUID of the selected language, and maybe some other stuff. Only Alan knows for sure...
OS X (10.4+) might add some attributes to a file, and I know that TextMate stores some data there too, such as caret position etc. To be utterly sure, check out the attributes of a text file too. When sending a file over the internet these attributes are pretty much always lost so it ain't a very risky thing.
Johan
On 28/7/2006, at 23:47, Court K. wrote:
[...] I assume it doesn't, but i just wanted to doublecheck.
No personal information is stored by TextMate itself.
The “invisible” part of the document (i.e. not directly visible as text in the editor) are bookmark positions, state of foldings (what part of the text is folded), and the carets position.
If the file is transferred to a non-HFS+ file system this is what often ends up as the ._«filename» file.
If you want to see it for yourself, go google for the "xattr" utility (or visit http://dev.bignerdranch.com/public/bnr/), which you can use to view all of the extended attributes stored on the file.
Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 28/7/2006, at 23:47, Court K. wrote:
[...] I assume it doesn't, but i just wanted to doublecheck.
No personal information is stored by TextMate itself.
The “invisible” part of the document (i.e. not directly visible as text in the editor) are bookmark positions, state of foldings (what part of the text is folded), and the carets position.
If the file is transferred to a non-HFS+ file system this is what often ends up as the ._«filename» file.
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