Re: Could it be that OpenOffice binary has NSA spyware in it?

Re: Could it be that OpenOffice binary has NSA spyware in it?

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Re: Could it be that OpenOffice binary has NSA spyware in it? Volker Birk 07-26-2007
Posted by Volker Birk on July 26, 2007, 1:19 pm
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In comp.security.misc plenty560@yahoo.com wrote:
> Has anybody here ever built OpenOffice from sources, or know of
> someone who has recently, who can say that doing so is possible?

It is possible. To do so, please read:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Building_with_ooobuild

> I ask because I am curious as to whether I should be trusting
> the binaries coming from Sun.

And don't forget to read http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/ ;-)

Yours,
VB.
--
> Ja, ZA hat bei mir in den letzten 5 Jahren (?), genauer: noch nie,
> Probleme bereitet.
Das Schälchen Weihwasser neben meinem Monitor auch nicht.
(Bjoern Schliessmann in d.c.s.f.)

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