On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, discuss@openoffice.org wrote:
For at least the last ten years, security experts have also said "do not open documents from unknown sources".
Bzzzt. Thanks for playing. Statements like that would disqualify the speaker from being any kind of security expert: Malware is only a harmless sequence of bits unless you have software designed to run it on sight.
I've heard MS people bleat about not opening documents, but MS software is in effect designed to spread malware. The Internet is about opening documents: mail, web pages, images, sound, video, word processing, spread sheets, reports, and so on. If you can't do that, then it loses its utility.
OOo needs to be robust enough that it can operate in an untrusted networked environment. It can be done.
-Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) OpenOffice.org: Now ISO 26300 Standards Compliant !
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