Re: Opening up password protected Microsoft Office files in Linux

From: Michael W Cocke (cocke_at_catherders.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:58:17 -0500

On 1 Feb 2005 12:04:27 GMT, Harold Stevens <wookie@aces.localdomain>
wrote:

>In <368snpF4qlgodU1@individual.net> sam1967@hetnet.nl:
>
>[Snip...]
>
>> no. it just said document was unreadable.
>
>I'm reasonably sure OOo (etc.) developers would have handled this if a
>certain purveyor of desktop monopolyware hadn't been such an ass about
>precioussssssss proprietary "innovation" (xlate: protection racket).
>
>I'm phrickin' ecstatic to be free of flawed "secured" MS nonsense. The
>company that brought you Active-X and spyware, put "passwords" on some
>transparently unencrypted ASCII encode scheme. Go figure.
>
>Anyway, shot in the dark...
>
>If you cannot get the password, try "strings" on it (if text and not a
>bunch of graphics is really all you need-do "man strings"):

Even easier - google for 'Office password crack'. There are literally
hundreds of places to get a very simple password remover.

MS secure computing - they make it very easy to recover your data when
you've lost your password. Er, Oh, wait....

Mike- 

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