Comments on: Vista Social Engineering http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/ Free Software Chicago Style: letting proprietary solutions sleep with the fishes Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: engineering » Blog Archive » Phishing: The Forever Hack http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-704 engineering » Blog Archive » Phishing: The Forever Hack Fri, 18 May 2007 21:11:44 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-704 [...] I thought I had heard it all. So if you stumble upon a website and hear CONTROL ALT DELETE, don t panic, as it is meant for a Windows Vista user. This brings social engineering to the computer now, simply amazing. What s next? …more [...] [...] I thought I had heard it all. So if you stumble upon a website and hear CONTROL ALT DELETE, don t panic, as it is meant for a Windows Vista user. This brings social engineering to the computer now, simply amazing. What s next? …more [...]

]]> By: engineering » Blog Archive » Social engineering of universities http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-652 engineering » Blog Archive » Social engineering of universities Wed, 09 May 2007 16:22:04 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-652 [...] I thought I had heard it all. So if you stumble upon a website and hear CONTROL ALT DELETE, don t panic, as it is meant for a Windows Vista user. This brings social engineering to the computer now, simply amazing. What s next? …more [...] [...] I thought I had heard it all. So if you stumble upon a website and hear CONTROL ALT DELETE, don t panic, as it is meant for a Windows Vista user. This brings social engineering to the computer now, simply amazing. What s next? …more [...]

]]> By: Joshua hudson http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-313 Joshua hudson Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:34:27 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-313 Oh and by whole industry, I mean microsoft, their partners, hardware venders etc. I'm not implying in any way that microsoft is ahead in some way. Oh and by whole industry, I mean microsoft, their partners, hardware venders etc. I’m not implying in any way that microsoft is ahead in some way.

]]> By: Joshua hudson http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-312 Joshua hudson Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:31:27 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-312 Your points are valid. I could care less either way. I'm OS agnostic, I use what I need for the task at hand, be it linux, mac or windows. I have all 3. This is why you never buy a microsoft OS, if you do that is, for at least a year. It lets the whole industry catch up. It was fun seeing your responses though. Have a great day and I enjoy the blog. Keep writing awesome software, and keep working on an awesome OS. Your points are valid. I could care less either way. I’m OS agnostic, I use what I need for the task at hand, be it linux, mac or windows. I have all 3.

This is why you never buy a microsoft OS, if you do that is, for at least a year. It lets the whole industry catch up.

It was fun seeing your responses though. Have a great day and I enjoy the blog. Keep writing awesome software, and keep working on an awesome OS.

]]> By: nixternal http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-311 nixternal Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:18:27 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-311 See, I thought the whole idea behind voice recognition was, well voice recognition. I thought you were supposed to be able to teach the system YOUR voice. This is great, but somehow they forgot to test someone else's voice after the training phase. Of course I think Open Source could and would fix this way faster. I am willing to bet you have a few days to a week if not longer before MS puts out a fix. So far on the Open Source level, when an application is closely maintained, I have seen turnarounds of less than 1 day. I think in this case, the true color of Microsoft Quality Assurance has shined brightly. Then again, they are known for releasing what the Linux world considers a beta or pre-release version. There obviously isn't enough time spent with testing. 5 years for Vista, so that means 4 years and 10 months of coding, 1 month of testing, and 1 month of showboating. Ridiculous to say the least. See, I thought the whole idea behind voice recognition was, well voice recognition. I thought you were supposed to be able to teach the system YOUR voice. This is great, but somehow they forgot to test someone else’s voice after the training phase. Of course I think Open Source could and would fix this way faster. I am willing to bet you have a few days to a week if not longer before MS puts out a fix. So far on the Open Source level, when an application is closely maintained, I have seen turnarounds of less than 1 day.

I think in this case, the true color of Microsoft Quality Assurance has shined brightly. Then again, they are known for releasing what the Linux world considers a beta or pre-release version. There obviously isn’t enough time spent with testing. 5 years for Vista, so that means 4 years and 10 months of coding, 1 month of testing, and 1 month of showboating. Ridiculous to say the least.

]]> By: Tianon http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-310 Tianon Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:59:28 +0000 http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.02.03/vista-social-engineering/#comment-310 Actually, I tried this on my Mac not too long ago... Used the Mac's own Speech Synthesis and looped it right in as the microphone (after using the built-in mic didn't work). Needless to say, it was a failure. I think Apple may be using some system to filter out the speaker noise (if mic input == speaker output, ignore). Who knows? Actually, I tried this on my Mac not too long ago… Used the Mac’s own Speech Synthesis and looped it right in as the microphone (after using the built-in mic didn’t work). Needless to say, it was a failure. I think Apple may be using some system to filter out the speaker noise (if mic input == speaker output, ignore). Who knows?

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