Comments on: Microsoft Office for Windows Has Security Flaws in Word, Excel http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-office-for-windows-has-security-flaws-in-word-excel/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:43:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ricardo Xantos http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/microsoft-office-for-windows-has-security-flaws-in-word-excel/#comment-899 Ricardo Xantos Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:02:41 +0000 /?p=325#comment-899 Let me get this straight. If you save private information with a key, and use the same key on another document. Then another person could get your private information easily, and that just "poses a very low threat for customers." Unless you have photograpich memory, chances are you have use the same password for more than one document. Chances also are that those documents are in the same computer. Thus the person that have access to one, will have access to the other. Its also reasonable to asume that if you took the trouble to password protect a file that that data is confidential. In other words, if a person have access to your files, he will also have access to your confidential information. And that is what Microsoft deems a "very low threat". Maybe for them, but certainly not for the customer. Let me get this straight. If you save private information with a key, and use the same key on another document. Then another person could get your private information easily, and that just “poses a very low threat for customers.”

Unless you have photograpich memory, chances are you have use the same password for more than one document. Chances also are that those documents are in the same computer. Thus the person that have access to one, will have access to the other. Its also reasonable to asume that if you took the trouble to password protect a file that that data is confidential. In other words, if a person have access to your files, he will also have access to your confidential information. And that is what Microsoft deems a “very low threat”. Maybe for them, but certainly not for the customer.

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