Would using OpenOffice/LibreOffice help, too?
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Replying to @mikko @farbenstau
I don't feel comfortable at all recommending open source like that... Open source software can have many unknown vulnerabilities. :-(
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How do you know there are less unknown vulnerabilities in closed source software? Plus, with your recommendation of Google, there's ...
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Replying to @farbenstau @mikko
Well covered ground, sorry. I would like the world to be otherwise but here we are. (If you want the tl;dr: heartbleed).
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I'm well aware of heartbleed, but again, how do you know closed source isn't even worse, yet we just don't know about it?
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Replying to @farbenstau @mikko
We know that Google has a huge security team and a great track record; open office has no security team like that. alas.
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We were talking Microsoft Office, not Google, vs. LO/OO, in the initial tweet. And "great track record" is not something I'd attest to MS.
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Replying to @farbenstau @mikko
Ah; great track record: gmail/gdocs so far.
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For suspicious files, I'd still recommend using a Linux Live CD w/ LO/OO on a computer that has no hard drive. No way to perm. infect that.
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I wish I could get people to do such stuff...
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Well, there are events like Linux Presentation Day, there are Linux User Groups, lots of people willing to take newbies by their hands.
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No, it's not just that it's so hopelessly inconvenient for people that make their living opening, reading, and closing word documents.
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