Windows Vista Speech Recognition has Security Issues.

[services.quest]

Windows Vista Speech Recognition has Vulnerabilities.

I was working on the internet with the Speech Recog service running
but in Sleep mode (not listening ) and someone could take over my
screen & attempt looking thru my files. This happened a few times
untill I figured there was no intrusion happening if the speech
recognition was completely off.

Is there a way to make it secure. or any preference or a setting that
could protect my system?

Thanks to Ray Kurzweil & Microsoft for this technology, now its
somebody else's turn to make it secure.

 

[Paul Smith]

Windows Vista Speech Recognition has Vulnerabilities.

I was working on the internet with the Speech Recog service running
but in Sleep mode (not listening ) and someone could take over my
screen & attempt looking thru my files. This happened a few times
untill I figured there was no intrusion happening if the speech
recognition was completely off.

Is there a way to make it secure. or any preference or a setting that
could protect my system?

"I was working" and "someone could take over". So did this happen to you or
not? Or is this just a case of somebody giving the computer commands
verbally and that is the "exploit", the same exploit that the keyboard and
mouse suffers from?

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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