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According to a recent article in Information Week the speech recognition feature in Microsoft's new OS, Windows Vista, contains a major security flaw. Apparently, pranksters were able to execute commands on a PC from a remote location through the use of audio files hosted on a website. For example, the audio file can say shut down, copy and delete and these commands were executed by the PC. There were even some reports that a person was able to create a recording that downloaded and executed a file from the Internet. Now that can be scary! read more »