[AccessD] OT: Funny Tech story

Good detective work, and you are right it is funny..

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drew Wutka" <DWUTKA at marlow.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 12:09 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Funny Tech story


I posted this to OT already, and got some good chuckles.  I know it's
Wednesday (hump day), but I thought this was too funny not to share
here!



Yesterday, I gave our GM (CEO) his new Laptop.  It's an HP Tablet PC,
with Vista Business on it.  I'm really starting to like Vista.







However, he just called me up, about 15 minutes ago, and he was in a
panic.  He said that he was in a meeting offsite, connected into Marlow
with a VPN connection.  He had left the meeting momentarily, and when he
got back, there was an email composing on his screen.  He then said he
was sitting there watching this 'mystery person' typing away an email on
his computer.







Now, my first reaction is a little skeptical.  What hacker is going to
get into a PC that's on a pretty tight VPN, to create an email?!?!  It's
VERY easy to spoof an email to be from someone else.... But then our GM
began reading some of the email. It included names of people at Marlow,
along with Marlow information.







So how would a hacker know this kind of stuff.....  so then I asked the
critical question:







"Is your voice recognition turned on?"







LOL!  Sure enough, he had Vista's voice recognition turned on, and while
he was out of the room, someone must have said something along the lines
of 'Creat an email', and Vista was happily chugging along and
transcribing what it was hearing in the meeting!  LOL.







Drew




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