Additional insight into collaborative editors

I think I had it all wrong when I accused OnlyOffice of sending data to the Russian goverment. This architectural design is called WOPI and was created for web applications that want to integrate with Microsoft Office. That means the architecture was really designed for the CIA to intercept a target's documents saved to Office 365.¹ I think good targets would asummably be those people who were subscribed to or read a certain magazine in the early 2010's.

As a software design spec, WOPI appears to be robost for online collaborations, but when configured incorrectly, it can become an easy target for interception. I do not have that warm, fuzzy feeling that Russia does not have a backdoor to OnlyOffice, China does not have a backdoor to WPS Office, and the US government does not have a backdoor to Office 365 - so I think I will stay away from those implementations.² Although, as a US Citizen, I know that there is a due process of law before any sort of surveillance can occur. A judge has to be convinced that there is ample evidence of wrongdoing before any sort of warrant will be granted for surveillance. The other two countries do not seem to afford that legal roadblock.

A fourth option of the WOPI protocol is Collabora, which is the original web implementation of LibreOffice. This appeals to me as an alternative to my current OnlyOffice setup. Collabora has great docs and even an example low-footprint WOPI server. This will be better than my Vibe coded OnlyOffice middleware server.