OT: Vista's "ultimate" security :)

[John Esak]

>
> 1. Although Vista has just been released to retail, it has been available
> to developers for many months. In fact, voice recognition has
> been part of
> the TabletPC for years; presumably they have the same vulnerability, as
> do Dragon, Via Voice, etc.
>
> 2. I believe a software patch could prevent this, while still allowing
> voice control. Such patch could operate similar to an
> anti-feedback check,
> by preventing acceptance of audio that was currently being output.
>

Bob,
I must be missing the point. Why would you assume the computer itself is
outputting the dangerous voice file. Couldn't someone just hold up a free
tape recorder (or voice recorder of any kind) and play it at the
microphone???  :-)

John Esak