Comments on: Flaw found in Office encryption

Snoopers could decode password-protected files in Microsoft programs, a security researcher warns.

[ordaj]

Why any corporation would rely on MS ...

...for security is beyond me. How many examples do we need?

No idea

Maybe it is the reason that people defend their shoddy practices constantly.

[System Tyrant]

Quit picking on Microsoft

It's the best they can do with the money they have. It's not like were talking about a multi-billion dollar company that can afford to secure their software.

You know for such a cheap software package what do you expect. It's not like those office tyrants like Wordperfect or Open office.

You guys just need to stop picking on Microsoft.

[8r1ck]

Office security

If you have a password protected Office doc, open it in Office 2003 and save it as XML, then edit the XML and turn the password protection off, ha!

[David Arbogast]

What's your point?

If you are saving all your files as raw XML, you obviously don't rely on file security anyhow... This is not a flaw of any kind.