OnlyOffice replacement

[overdrawn98901]

@win11.shading291

I don’t. I’m simply stating what I read from either article or what someone else. I wasn’t able to find anything on it being audited online so if someone has some info on this, please let me know.

I mean, a security audit cost a heck of a lot of money. Unless the application is security critical (like a password manager, or a vpn protocol like wireguard) then I don’t think there won’t be much of a push for the maintainers to do an official security audit. With this, I also don’t think LibreOffice also has such the same audit.

[crossroads]

@win11.shading291

Also, Draw’s UI is terrible (to me) as a pdf program

Because it’s not what is designed for, it’s just another possibility

@win11.shading291

Actually, can Windows Defender do that? (Yes I use it, please don’t derail ).

Could someone tell me how?

Here’s an istruction

[win11.shading291]

Thanks! Done! I feel better! xD

[thomasphansen (Thomas Hansen)]

This entire discussion is really useless, mainly because the original topic (this one) was written before the company behind OnlyOffice moved itself to Singapore. Quoting Wikipedia:

In August 2023, OnlyOffice opened a holding company in Singapore and incorporated all the existing branches (those in Latvia, USA, UK, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Serbia) under the one brand. Ascensio System SIA was to become 100% owned by the British-based Ascensio System Ltd, which in its turn was to become 100% owned by OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. The beneficiaries of OnlyOffice Capital Group Pte. Ltd. are listed in the registry of Singapore companies by ACRA.

So, no reason for fearing Russian-controlled bosses.

Besides, as said here, you can just add a decent firewall to block all traffic around OnlyOffice, or just sniff all traffic and see if there is anything suspect - and be 100% sure, lots of people have done that and found ZERO concerns, which is 100% less than what you get if you do the same for MSOffice - or Google Chrome - or Opera Browser - or any Adobe product.

To put it simple: OnlyOffice is by far the best MSOffice replacement available as Open Source (LibreOffice is very good, but doesn’t have the same level of compatibility). Being open source, I wouldn’t really be that worried about it…

[win11.shading291]

@thomasphansen

Besides, as said here, you can just add a decent firewall to block all traffic around OnlyOffice, or just sniff all traffic and see if there is anything suspect - and be 100% sure, lots of people have done that and found ZERO concerns

Would you be able to provide a source with those many people who did check?

I wasn’t able to that anywhere else. I agree that it’s the best MSOffice replacement and I did the firewall trick, but it’s still in the back of my head hahaha!

I’m sure if there would be people stating they checked and haven’t found anything malicious, it would reassure some.

[deviancy]

These are the connections it makes when you open a docx file. Nothing really concerning to me. I block outgoing unless I explicitly need it because that’s just my standard policy, but I don’t see any reason to be worried.