[Bug 158715] Periodically call home to check for need for update due to security vulnerability

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158715

--- Comment #30 from John Mills <jmills59 at yahoo.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #29)
> (In reply to John Mills from comment #27)
> > security is an area that you can't leave to the possibility
> > a person is running an extension.
> 
> We ship and install extensions by default. Could be done here as well.
> Extensions are easy to patch out - for non-TDF builds, easy to modify, and
> allow much more flexibility than core programming.

That's an interesting point, thanks Heiko, I think that might inform that there
is a security breach, it won't update a users computer however. I believe that
for the most part a user should be running the latest supported version of
LibreOffice to mitigate situations like this.

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