[Gllug] Distribution Pecking Order So far

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Thu Oct 25 18:07:56 UTC 2001


It is the old Scottish joke.

Everybody thinks that the name of the football club is "Partick Thistle
Nil" because that is how it is announced every Saturday ;-)

Cheers
Xander

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 18:09, Jim Bailey wrote:
> <flame>
> 
> what have you got against Partick Thistle
> 
> </flame>
> 
> jim ;-P
> 
> 
> On Thursday, October 25, 2001, at 03:55 PM, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> 
> >
> >>
> >> Just to give you something to flame me for: "Office is an industry 
> >> standard,
> >> and didn't get there by being insecure".
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> 					Alex.
> >
> >
> > I think that it is insecure on a user level.
> >
> > Most people barely know how to use a word processor, many believe that
> > if they password a word document then it is secure.
> >
> > It may be possible to encrypt excel documents; however the majority of
> > the people using Excel will consider a password sufficient (Which as has
> > been previously mentioned is totally ignored by Star Office).
> >
> > Even when they do choose to encrypt the files the password they will
> > choose to lock the file is normally girlfriend/wife/cat/DOB/arsenel1.
> >
> > I believe that it is insecure in that there is no advice given when you
> > choose to password a document - this is compared to the help you get
> > when doing other tasks: "It looks like you are writing a letter......."
> > :-)
> >
> > I think that office got where is is today through lethargy and
> > ignorance.
> >
> > Troll 1  Xander 0
> > Dundee 3 Partick Thistle 0
> >
> > Cheers
> > Xander
> >
> >
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