Somewhere there's someone who hasn't heard about this little Microsoft Voice Recognition issue. It seems that the term "shout hacking" has been surfaced as a label for such activity. Please, collectively, let us shun this name. It's not just a bit silly, but also inaccurate. First of all, no shouting need be involved. A whisper, if sufficiently audible, would be enough. More importantly, perhaps, there is no 'hacking' involved here. It's a feature, doing what it's supposed to do. You tell it to shutdown, it shuts down. If someone comes up with an audio sequence that's inaudible to humans, but causes the Vista box to load a trojan from a remote host, now that would be a hack. Or an audio file that launches itself via voice command, creating a sort of audio LAND attack...
Don't get me wrong. This is nifty and funny, but let's not give it a silly name.
