OT: Vista's "ultimate" security :)

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> Subject: RE: OT: Vista's "ultimate" security :)
> 
> > I think OS X has had voice recognition for years, but I've never 
> > mucked with it.  I'm not sure how one would use it to attack the 
> > system easily though as (a) everything runs with reduced 
> priviledges, 
> > and (b) getting to a command line to do things isn't all 
> that common 
> > (unless you're a *nix geek like me of course :-).
> 
> I've used the voice recognition that was in the Mac OS back 
> in the '90s and the way it worked is you give the computer a 
> name and you had to call the computer's name and then the 
> command you wanted to do.  If you didn't use the correct name 
> the computer would not respond to voice commands.  
> 
> Microsoft could make it so you could customize a name for the 
> computer and then configure it so it would only respond to 
> users whose voice matched the user who recorded the computer name.  
> 
> Chris


They could, and most people will call it "computer".  Just like Scotty did
in Star Trek III or IV. The one with the whales.

Microsoft would have to code this to require a name other then "computer".

Maybe like my laptop which is named after my mother-in-law or my
workstation, named after a dog. :)

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting