password protection in office XP documents

[security () rexwire com]

Why has Microsoft bothered putting document protection in their application?
It takes 5 seconds to by pass it. Save a office document (that has document
protection) as a .html document and than edit the page in a html editor,
remove everything between the  <o:DocumentProperties> </style>. Now open
this page in word and all the protection is gone. No need to know the
password.


Microsoft evens documents this in their help file. Should this not be
considered a security violation from a user point of view

SKP

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