On 18 Sep 2006 at 20:01, Wayne Johnson wrote: > How about using IRM [Information Rights Management] for Office from > MSFT at <http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010397891033.aspx> ?
I remember when that came out a while back, I kinda laughed about it since a) it requires everyone be running office 2003 for it to be of any use b) it's from microsoft, their music DRM has had a checkered past security wise c) related to a) above, you have to install the IRM client and other software to make it work which is fine internally but of no use externally. It's a nice start from MS, but is of no use if the recipients aren't also running office 2003 and have IRM clients installed AND are using outlook as their mail client. Plus with the above in play, if the external recipient is running say office 2000 using outlook2k for email, OR say Eudora, as best as I can tell, they'll still have access to all the stuff you can purportedly protect using IRM. Actually I revise my opinion on this, it's next to useless, unless you only use it internally and never send a document outside your organization, I'm sure there are organizations that fit this bill, I've just never seen one ;-) I see they have a rights manage client for IE, but it only allows read only access to a document, not much use for collaboration, plus it requires IE <blech>. With this client in particular, I've since found out since my OP, that most items that leave the office go out in pdf or html form, however they do have some documents that require the commenting feature so they send them out in word format so that their clients/business partners can modify the document and send it back. This is what I am concerned about. So that documents that go to outside parties are sanitized and ONLY contain the comments/revisions that are necessary for the outside party to see. So for example if one of the managers makes a comment, that, so and so staff member at a client is an idiot, definitely don't want that stuff leaving the building... -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
