Leach, William R wrote: > First, I am no longer subscribed so please cc me on any response. > > My employer, rightfully concerned about network security, is in the > process of blocking and removing "unsupported" software. This action is > fully understandable when viewed from a security standpoint. However, > individual exceptions will be granted where the exception is either > essential to the business activity or is significantly beneficial to the > company. > > I have been asked to provide a justification to continue my use of Open > Office. > > I am able to cite a number incidents where OOo has saved corrupted MS > Word documents, allowed for rapid creation of drawings, royalty free > generation of PDFs, and several other examples. > > What I would like to have some help with is verifiable information > concerning the security of OOo (particularly compared to MS Word).
Hi, Please do not include HTML formatting in posts to lists, thanks. Some OOo pages for further reading, which may be of assistance: <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SecurityFAQ> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Security> <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Switching> <http://why.openoffice.org/> <http://why.openoffice.org/why_gov.html> Some independent pros vs cons, the 1st is a couple of years old but still has some relevancies: <http://www.idealware.org/articles/msoffice_vs_openoffice.php> And from Wikipedia with further links: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org> "OpenOffice.org includes a security team,[38] and as of June 2008 the security organization Secunia reports no known unpatched security flaws for the software.[39] Kaspersky Lab has shown a proof of concept virus for OpenOffice.org.[40] 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.[41] 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.[42] As with Microsoft Word,[43] documents created in OpenOffice can contain metadata which may include a complete history of what was changed, when and by whom." HTH. -- Mike Dawe OOo 3.0.1rc2 MacOSX PPC US English --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
