👨🔬 Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
「 Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions 」
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👨🔬 Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
「 Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions 」
metadata in research papers is such a blind spot, people scrub their main text but forget the source files still have author comments and paths everywhere