[luau] Beware of Using Word 97

Jim jim at jimroby.com
Sun Sep 8 08:53:00 PDT 2002


Important_document_from_great_thinker.doc  'save as'  Idea.txt ; type: 
M$ Dos text file, w/CR
! Caution, saving as text, you will loose fonting, happy faces, and 
other important widgits!
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:-)  

Ben Beeson wrote:

>Aloha,
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>	A separate computer just changes the architecture of the problem, it doesn't fundamentally change the problem.  I believe this macro option could be used to facilitate an attack regardless of Internet connection because the method allows for information leakage.  This is because the macro virus "tool" essentially acts like a "wire" to the cleartext data of the victim's computer. ---snip---
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>VR,
>Ben 
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