Putin, posturing as economy suffers and defense budgets cut, singles-out Microsoft as foreign agent, wants Linux nbcnews.com/news/us-news/put…

In battle with U.S., Putin’s newest target is Microsoft

He’s pushing for government offices to replace their software.

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I think Russia will be extremely disappointed by the security of free office suites trying to parse .doc files against a dedicated attacker.
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Microsoft spent a decade trying to figure out how to parse a .doc file without accidentally running code - they gave up and went XML.
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.doc is so bad, they decided XML was a better option. Do you understand what I am saying.
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"XML, only good as a document format when compared directly with Word's .doc format"
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I must be missing something. What IS a good way to store docs? RTD? LaTeX?
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Replying to @RMazurs @SwiftOnSecurity @directhex
I guess it depends on your goals. If you like `git diff` then something like LaTeX or MDWN I guess.

Nov 2, 2016 Β· 2:32 PM UTC