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OpenOffice.org Security 'Insufficient'
InfoWorldMike writes "IDG News Service's Robert McMillan reports that researchers at French Ministry of Defense say vulnerabilities with open source office suite OpenOffice.org may rival those of Microsoft's version. With Microsoft's Office suite now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from computer viruses. "The general security of OpenOffice is insufficient," the researchers wrote in a paper entitled In-depth analysis of the viral threats with OpenOffice.org documents. "This suite is up to now still vulnerable to many potential malware attacks," they wrote. The OpenOffice.org team has already fixed a software bug discovered by the researchers, and the two groups are in discussions about how to improve the overall security of the software. "The one real flaw in the programming logic has been fixed," said Louis Suarez-Potts, an OpenOffice.org community manager. "The others are theoretical.""
Great. A goverment agency sees enough potential in OO.org to spend a probably not insignificant amount of time and money on analysing the code, and what is the reaction around here? Finger pointing. "But MS Office is at least just as bad, yadda yadda yadda".
How constructive. When you were a child and you came back from school with your less-than-stellar marks, did you point at your retarded little cousin and yelled "but Bobs marks are even worse"?
Either refute their points if they are wrong, or suck it up like a man, use the money already spent for the betterment of the project and get your shit together and clean up the mess.
And yes, I know that the people whining around here are probably not the same spending their time coding on OO. Still, this attitude pisses me off.