Ash Nallawalla wrote: > > From: Rick Welykochy > > > The Privacy Foundation has just released an advisory > > on an issue that we discovered earlier this month > > in Microsoft Word. > > Office 97 was Web-enabled, so haven't these "Web Bugs" been around for a > while? > > See: http://www.tiac.net/users/smiths/privacy/index.htm The Star Office suite also allows image URLs to be included in documents, spreadsheets and presentations, which means that it also has the capacity to host web bugs. I would guess that most similar application suites have the same capability. Star Office of course runs on Linux, Solaris, and Windows. My checking was done on a Linux machine. Ross Johnson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
