OpenOffice.org Security and VBA Macros
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| 1. Are you guys going to do anything about security?
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| Openoffice.org is serious about security. Recently a dedicated team
| has been set up to respond to security issues. That team are continually
| evaluating the security aspects of the application, some insightful
| comments from one of the Openoffice.org security experts can found here.
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| 2. Will you retrofit a carefully considered security model (like
| Java has) into VBA?
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| No - it's not sensible. Scripting in Openoffice.org is more than
| just Basic. How about Python bindings, etc.?
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| 3. Will you support digital signatures to help users decide whether
| to execute a particular document/program?
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| Openoffice.org already supports signing of macros and you can
| configure the application so that only signed macros are allowed to be
| executed.
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| 4. How will you avoid importing VBA trojans and viruses to OO?
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| Macro signing, querying the user before executing, macros.
| Enterprise-wide lock-down to manage those settings easily.
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