[plug] Duck and cover, new MS-Office vulnerability

[intra at slowest.net]

Although i am all for the OpenOffice way of life, don't you agree that
Microsoft also has a lot more people looking for security holes then 
on the OpenOffice front?

Given some time and the popularity of OpenOffice we might be cursing 
their software in the future and applying regular security fixes.

Sorry to add some fuel to the flames.


On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:08:28PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Perhaps that's why they cut the price of it recently? (-:
> 
> http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3383467
> 
>     The world's largest software maker said a "critical" flaw in
>     its Visual Basic for Applications software, used to develop
>     applications for Windows and Office, could enable a malicious
>     programmer to create documents that would launch attacks on
>     unsuspecting users.
> 
> Grammar question: is that the maker of the world's largest software, or 
> the largest "maker" (IRL replicator) of software in the world?
> 
> Either way, you can offer OpenOffice.org as a replacement that doesn't 
> need regular security fixes.
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>