From: D.Lee Beard <bea
...@ohio.edu>
From: Bob Kehr <b...@bobkehr.net>
> (OpenOffice has security
> vulnerabilities that need to be addressed, too.)
This is news to me. Can you be more specific on the security
vulnerabilities? Is it less secure than MS Office? My impression is that MS
Office is no more secure and that with the Open Office.
I quote from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#Security
" Security
OpenOffice.org includes a security team,[37] and as of September 2007 the
security organization Secunia reports no known unpatched security flaws for
the software.[38] Kaspersky Lab has shown a proof of concept virus for
OpenOffice.org.[39] This shows OOo viruses are possible, but there is no
known virus "in the wild".
In a private meeting of the French Ministry of Defense, macro-related
security issues were raised.[40] OpenOffice.org developers have responded
and noted that the supposed vulnerability had not been announced through
"well defined procedures" for disclosure and that the ministry had revealed
nothing specific. However, the developers have been in talks with the
researcher concerning the supposed vulnerability.[41]
Like Microsoft Word, OpenOffice Writer is known to leak sensitive
information about documents,[citation needed] sometimes with serious
consequences. Unbeknownst to most users, documents carry effectively
invisible metadata which can include a complete history of what was changed,
when and by whom.[42]"
If you know something that indicates that MS Office offers a safer user
experience, please share in more detail.
-D.Lee Beard
http://AsktheTechies.com
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