Would it be too much to ask for the details of the originator of the idea, such as the poster's name and name of the mailing list? Postings on lists are not some vast source of ideas to be appropriated by others, they should be properly credited, like any other source....

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Microsoft has released its short response at MSRC Blog on Wednesday.

Link to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) Blog entry:

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2007/01/31/issue-regarding-windows-vista-speech-recognition.aspx...

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Has anyone considered the fact that a lot of instant messaging software allows you to customize sign on/sign off sounds?

I don't have Vista on any of my machines, so I can't test it, but if someone left their IM software running then that would eliminate the need for someone to actually open a UR...

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Why not take it a step further? I'm going to write up an article suggesting to remove the phones next to peoples' desks. Someone might call and give them bad instructions. ...

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This isn't a hole in Vista.. any speech recognition software would suffer from the same exploit. It's a vulnerability of speech recognition technology as a whole, surely.

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