A MP3 podcast is enough to hack Windows Vista
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Windows Vista is nicely design operating system but includes some dumb and dumber features. Why dumb? Because Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition functions could be hijacked, reports the BBC.
The trick is a simple one. When a user plays an MP3 file of voice instructions while his microphone is on, Vista consider the recorded voice as the user’s one. Listening a podcast including commands like ‘Delete’, ‘Copy’, ‘Shutdown’ could then impact on the computer.
But why dumber? Because those critical sequences of orders are not filtered or that there’s no blacklist users could create to fine tune the safety of the system. For its defense, Microsoft argued that voice commands could not be used for privileged functions such as creating a new user or formatting a drive… Is that enough?
Feb 2, 2007 | By Nuno
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