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])
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