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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
MSFT 456.91-0.5%Jan 15 3:59 PM EST
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To: Timetobuy who wrote (64215)1/18/2002 1:46:53 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (3) of 74651
 
I'm seeing stories on the Internet today about an interesting security hole in Word that I hadn't heard of before. Reportedly the Word document format is quite unsophisticated, and is mostly just a dump of whatever was in the machine's memory at the time the document was written out. Thus, it can contain parts of OTHER, UNRELATED documents that are being processed at the time (e.g. in a mail program, a spreadsheet, another copy of Word, etc.). Some non-Microsoft programs will expose the extraneous material if presented with the Word ".doc" file.

There are stories floating around on the Internet today of severe security breaches that have resulted (e.g. as a result of sending a client a copy of documentation that just happened to be edited at the same time an e-mail discussion with management was ongoing about how to screw them, or people whose private, personal e-mails showed up on the machines of others to whom they had sent files).

I haven't verified that this can happen, but there are enough folks coming forward with war stories that I don't doubt it.

I know there are some Microsoft folks who monitor this forum. I'd be interested to hear a response.

JMHO.

Charles Tutt (TM)
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