OpenOffice violates Excel privacy

I was working on an Excel/VBA development project recently and thought I would see what OpenOffice made of the workbook and associated VBA macros. The VBA code in the workbook was protected with a password applied via the Tools - VBA Project Properties - Protection tab. When I opened the worksheet I was able to view my protected VBA code without a password being requested. This finding says perhaps more about the weakness of Excel's protection than it does about OpenOffice's ability to crack passwords. Bottomline: if you want to your Excel VBA code to be protected you need to go shopping for something a bit stronger than what Microsoft offers. I haven't tried it yet but I assume the same goes for 'protected' Word documents too.