I thought this might be intrusting. It's from www.activewin.com More fatal Windows Vista exploits Last week, the media went schizophrenic over the Windows Vista speech recognition 'loophole' which allowed anyone with a microphone to have full access over your computer. Granted, you must also be partially-deaf, turned your speaker volume to full, carefully place your microphone next to the speakers, turn on speech recognition and train your speech profile as if you were someone else. It might sound incredibly challenging to get this exploit working properly, but the media assures this exploit is a "fatal flaw", so obviously Microsoft is to blame and Vista gets a big red "Fail" on security. This week, I Posted this, and I think I hit the nail. Artic Wolf (1 Posts) at 2/6/2007 3:16:01 PM It can be done,if you created scripts to by pass the security. Which from what I understand, almost all of Vista was created with scripting in mind to even install. 1. load voice command, 2. load speech pattering 3. start narrator. 4 run script to tell narrator what to say. It wouldn't be to hard, since most people leave there head phones with microphones on the desk, or have a desktop microphone that isn't muted. I actually had my computer doing it's own thing with my speech program, and didn't know it till it started doing things that I didn't want it to do. So yes it can be done since Narrator and other speech TTS programs have better English speaking skills then we do. Not to mention they speak clear. -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx