Ehsanul Haque

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Archive for February, 2007

14 February
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Microsoft Vista – Is it secured enough?

With Microsoft’s latest addition to the OS list, Vista makes its way to market with slogan “WOW”. In fact with the graphical transition this version will blow away anyone’s mind. But for that you must have a good platform, which I think everyone is aware of.

Security has always been an issue with operating system. Latest version of Windows, Vista that is, promises to be stronger in that aspect. Suddenly today I ran into an article which was really interesting. MS Vista has voice recognition capability for performing commands. That means user can speak any command through a microphone.

A question before I proceed. Are you tired of unwanted pop-up window ads? Well, here is a latest challenge for everyone. A website can have some audio clips which will start playing once you visit the site, which can in fact (if speech is clear) can shutdown your PC! A voice command like “Shutdown” can play and your Vista running PC will cleverly turn off. Awesome! Isn’t it?

I am not sure if MS Vista has voice authorising system or not – which may prevent this from happening. Only your voice can run your PC. Hopefully it does.

Have fun with Vista!