Timeline for Do Mathematica notebooks include personal metadata?
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| Jan 29, 2017 at 19:07 | history | edited | J. M.'s missing motivation | edited tags | |
| Dec 28, 2013 at 7:09 | vote | accept | Emilio Pisanty | ||
| Dec 28, 2013 at 7:09 | answer | added | Emilio Pisanty | timeline score: 25 | |
| Sep 13, 2013 at 9:19 | comment | added | Kuba | @episanty I encourage you to gather information you got from comments and your experience and self answer this question :) | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 12:33 | comment | added | Jagra | @DanielLichtblau -- Good to know. Thanks for the warning. | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 19:45 | comment | added | Daniel Lichtblau | Unfortunately, no. The reason being I no longer recall the details (this was maybe 2 years ago). It may have been relatively benign, something like just having the name of the original notebook complete with the .nb extension. Not such a bad thing usually, but a strong identifier if one happens to be the only possible referee who uses Mathematica. It is also possible that there was a file path but I don't think it was that serious. | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 18:16 | history | edited | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 195 characters in body |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 18:15 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | @DanielLichtblau Could you elaborate on the nature and location of the metadata your pdfs did include, and your solution for scrubbing it? | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | Yves Klett | You could post add a "How to scrub metadata from notebooks" addendum to your question... | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 15:50 | comment | added | Daniel Lichtblau | I will emphasize what @Jagra says: check in a text editor. I've made pdfs from notebooks, and learned that they contained identifying information I'd have preferred not be there. Indeed, an important case was precisely for a referee report. Taking this one step further: also check in a text editor any file you might send, that was generated from the nb. | |
| Sep 9, 2013 at 3:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackMma/status/376907138343657472 | ||
| Sep 8, 2013 at 23:36 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Thanks to both, that's good to know. As it's part of a refereeing process it's important for the journal to know that there isn't something hidden in there. | |
| Sep 8, 2013 at 23:01 | comment | added | Jagra | You can examine the entire notebook in a text editor to make certain it doesn't contain anything you don't want to include, but honestly, it will only have in it what you put in it. | |
| Sep 8, 2013 at 21:44 | comment | added | rm -rf♦ | Not directly, but I suppose it could store the file path of custom stylesheets, which might identify you. You can turn off FileOutlineCache in the options inspector, which only leaves the notebook expressions behind (paths will still remain). You might also want to disable/remove the CellChangeTimes so mask when you were active/your time zone, etc. | |
| Sep 8, 2013 at 21:35 | history | asked | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |