{"id":86,"date":"2004-03-26T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-10-09T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T16:27:03","slug":"ms_word_password_protection_bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/03\/26\/ms_word_password_protection_bypass.php","title":{"rendered":"MS Word Password Protection Bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for Microsoft, seems the much loved MS Word password protection is pretty lame (it&#8217;s not like anyone would trust this would they? The mind boggles)<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/article.gmane.org\/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq\/10772\"><p>\nExample 1<br \/>\n1) Open MS Word with a new\/blank page<br \/>\n2) Now select &#8220;Insert&#8221; &gt;&gt; &#8220;File&#8221; &gt;&gt; browse for your password protected doc select &#8220;Insert&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Insert&#8221; password protected doc into your new\/blank doc<br \/>\n3) Now select &#8220;Tools&#8221; &#038; Whey hey, voila, there&#8217;s no longer an &#8220;Unprotect document&#8221; &#8230; password vanished &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full sad story <a href=\"http:\/\/article.gmane.org\/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq\/10772\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray for Microsoft, seems the much loved MS Word password protection is pretty lame (it&#8217;s not like anyone would trust this would they? The mind boggles) Example 1 1) Open MS Word with a new\/blank page 2) Now select &#8220;Insert&#8221; &gt;&gt; &#8220;File&#8221; &gt;&gt; browse for your password protected doc select &#8220;Insert&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Insert&#8221; password protected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}