Microsoft .TLA and .TLAx Extensions (was RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?)

There are security issues around allowing MSO binaries being disguised as OOXML and then silently 
accepted anyhow.  The decision, stupid or not, is clearly by design.

To see the importance of this, note that you cannot rename a *.docm (macro-enabled) as a *.docx (no 
macros here, ever) and get away with it.  

Please keep in mind that the disguise was proposed on this list as a deception (regardless of 
whether the requirement was wrong-headed or not).  And the deception is needed to compensate for 
the fact that Save As ... .docx is not the greatest thing since sliced bread in OpenOffice-lineage 
implementations.  (Um, I am not sure that Save As ... .docx is even possible in Apache OpenOffice, 
although I am confident that will change.)

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Säger [mailto:villeroy@t-online.de] 
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 18:00
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?

Am 04.06.2012 00:50, Brian Barker wrote:
> You are implying that a file with a .docx extension but actually in .doc
> format will be happily opened by Microsoft Word - that Word will simply
> interpret the contents and ignore the inappropriate extension, that is.
> Sadly for your theory, that appears not to be the case.
>
> Brian Barker

Thank you for trying. I did not know how stupid that program is.


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