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I guess those few people who do use voice recognition don't count.
It's like how they refused to fix the XP escalation exploit for more than 2 years and would have waited for 3+ years till XP SP3 of Metasploit hadn't included a ready-made sploit. Their reasoning is that it isn't important since people ran Admin mode anyways and privilege escalation in XP was moot. That sounds logical, until you consider the fact that it makes their position on UAC hypocritical and that it's a slap in the face of people who actually bothered with the trouble of running in user-only mode.

As a security professional and CISSP, I?m all too familiar with this ?risk management? model and it?s too closely related to ?public relations? and I?m sometimes disgusted by it. I mean you can do all these risk calculations and ask what is the ROI of a fire extinguisher? What was the ROI of implementing a safety container for the fuel tank in the Pinto? They had originally designed it to have it but the bean counters cut it out to save costs figuring the cost of a few dead people and the resulting lawsuits would be cheaper than implementing the safety measure.

What is the value of a few voiceless disabled people who need this stuff to work and be reliable and secure? I guess they don?t count right?
Posted by: georgeou   Posted on: 02/12/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I guess those few people who do use voice recognition don't count.  georgeou | 02/12/08
Linux tried and failed on the same measure  nucrash | 02/12/08
Those people are in the minority  ju1ce | 02/12/08
No real security professional would deny that this isn't a flaw  georgeou | 02/13/08

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