[Gllug] Re: [OxLUG] M$ Word/Excel security

[Chris Ball]

On 01 Oct 2001 23:13:54 +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> To continue in randomthreadness one ought top mention that this is
> especially superfluous on a Linux mailing list.  

Yeah, that's what I meant with:
> > [..] and the subject of the post is entirely off-topic

> If they were using a decent word processor such as Star Office and not
> M$ word the problem would not arise as Star Office just ignores any M$
> passwords :-)

Hah!  So, the files aren't encrypted using the password as a key?
That's.. an almost Adobe like level of idiocy.  :)

~C.

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