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--- Comment #8 from Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi> ---
Note that the basic expectations in the initial comment seem wrong in a scary
way to me.

If some "auditing" is involved at some site, presumably that then means some
workflows will be "prohibited". (Like, "you are not allowed to print files
called 'secret-report- *.doc'".) That then will automatically mean there will
sooner or later be an incentives for some people to "work around" the
auditing/limitation.

LibreOffice does not rely on the file name extension of a document to load it
correctly. You can for instance rename a file with the extension .odt to have
the extension .xls instead, and LibreOffice will open it just fine, as a Writer
document.

Thus any "auditing" based on what the document file name extension happens to
be will be unsafe and easily worked around. And trust me, people will figure it
out. In general users are always more clever than what system admins and
bureaucrats expect when it comes to working around annoying limitations.

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