Hi Rob, I do network security, and I am learning to do application security. I coauthored a penetration testing book for entry-level security people in 2007. Last year I published some preliminary work on cloud security.
Wolf On Jun 29, 2011 8:18 AM, "Rob Weir" <apa...@robweir.com> wrote: > Hi Wolf, > > Welcome to the project. > > What kind of security work do you do? > > One thing we have not discussed on this list, is security. As we all > know, Microsoft Office has been a vector for security exploits for > many years, with macro viruses, etc. They presence of mobile code in > the form of macros, embedded in documents that are mailed around, > combined with the ubiquity of MS Office, this makes it an attractive > target. > > If we're successful with Apache OpenOffice, and it grows to have a > much larger market share, then it is reasonable to expect that it will > also become attractive to crackers. We should be planning for this, > and make such enhancements in OO that will help users (and corporate > IT departments) manage these risks. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Y'all! >> I have been a user and evangelist of openoffice.org since star office >> appeared. I am a security specialist, linux engineer and tech school >> instructor. I develop and manage web sites as well, and am a python and web >> programmer. >> >> Wolf Halton >>
