Comments on: OpenOffice security is questioned

French researchers pinpoint security issues, but OpenOffice.org says only bug discovered has already been fixed.

[rcrusoe]

The French are overlooking a major OOo security feature

MS Office only runs on Windows, but OpenOffice.org can also be
run on secure operating systems.

[Harlan879]

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Although I don't like to support Microsoft (and personally use OOo extensively), it's important to point out that Microsoft's Office for Mac works just fine on MacOS, which is a secure (unix-based) operating system. And, in fact, OOo's Mac port is clunky (NeoOffice is not clunky, but it's not up-to-date).

[Philips]

OO.o security?

That must be joke.

I routinely crash all major/minor releases of OO.o I have used last five years. Learn keyboard shortcuts and start using them - very fast. Believe me OO.o would crash sooner than you would run of those few shortcuts you know. I stopped using keyboard in OO.o for the very reason. Though if you would try to do something very fast with mouse in OO.o - it could easily crash too. Happens to me all the time.

Though same applies to releases of M$O. Though second/third patch level (SR1/2/3/etc) normally works stable enough. In my experience, M$O (unlike OO.o) hangs more often than crashes.

As all security researchers have said most conditions leading to crash of application can be used for exploit.

[uohaa]

Thats the Problems with open source software,all the security issues,it could easily cost more the starting from the bign!