Heheh... had this come in on Silicon's round-up of the week :)
----snip----
And finally, Microsoft - everybody's favourite love-hate tech titan -
has been up to its old tricks of late with a botched live demo of new
voice recognition software, which will be included in its Vista launch,
in front of media and analysts at its Redmond headquarters.
A Microsoft employee bravely took to the stage, no doubt with the same
kind of trepidation felt by the world's first parachute jumper or the
person who discovered 'yes, you can eat snails'.
"Dear mom comma", he began speaking purposefully into a headset
microphone positioned just a few millimetres from his lips with all the
pace and clarity of an English tourist trying to order "Two... pints...
of... lager... please... " in a foreign country.
At which point "Dear aunt," appeared on the big screen for all to see,
followed by some much-to-be-expected chortling from the audience who no
doubt fear the day a Microsoft demo runs smoothly.
"Fix aunt," said the slightly embarrassed Microsoft man.
"Dear aunt, let's set", read the screen.
"Delete that, delete that, delete that..." he said.
"Dear aunt, let's set so", said the big screen.
"I think it's picking up a bit of an echo," he told the guffawing
audience.
"Delete, select all", he added.
"Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all,"
came the response on the screen.
By which point the audience was laughing so hard the Round-Up suspected
an accident of a toilet nature may befall at least a few of its members.
"I'm glad you're enjoying this," offered the Microsoft man, realising he
may have seen his demonstration go horrendously wrong but he'd at least
made them laugh and doubtless left them eager for more.
The comedy could only have been heightened if at that point Mr Clippy
announced his return by popping up and saying: "It looks like you're
writing a letter."
Or perhaps even: "It looks like you're making a right old balls up of
this my friend."
However, it seems the problem may have been down to some background
noise at the demonstration and not - the Round-Up repeats 'not', you
understand - any crappy software.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Linehan
Sent: 11 August 2006 03:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Password resets
Well all I can say is that we have several partners that have built
password and pin reset capabilities on top of Microsoft Speech Server
2004 and have customers that are very satisfied with them:
http://www.microsoft.com/speech/solutions/password/default.mspx . It is
something that I get asked about a lot and was a requested feature for
the password reset capabilities that are being planned for Active
Directory.
Thanks,
-Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley,
CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Password resets
Love that movie.
(Sneakers with Robert Redford)
"I'd like world peace" ...."We're the government, we don't do that
kind of thing!"
As an off topic....if you get the Director's edition you get the info
about how the "code" speech done by the character Gunther was actually
augmented and reviewed by the guy who is the "A" in RSA.
(okay okay I need a life, I know...)
Passwords are one of the most challenging aspects of security and
networks because they impact so closely with the human element. There
is studies on how brains process numbers and how much we can remember.
Amazon.com: Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection, Authentication:
Books: Mark Burnett,Dave Kleiman:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597490415/sr=8-2/qid=1155257055/ref=pd
_bbs_2/103-7791739-9887065?ie=UTF8
This one has a chapter on passwords:
Amazon.com: Protect Your Windows Network: From Perimeter to Data
(Microsoft Technology): Books: Jesper M. Johansson,Steve Riley:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321336437/sr=1-1/qid=1155257102/ref=pd
_bbs_1/103-7791739-9887065?ie=UTF8&s=books
The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 1 of 3: Security
Management - October 2004:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1004.mspx
The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 2 of 3:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoin
t100504.mspx
The Great Debates: Pass Phrases vs. Passwords. Part 3 of 3 -- TechNet
Column - Security Management - December 2004:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/secmgmt/sm1204.mspx
David Adner wrote:
> Wait, I've seen this one before. "My voice is my passport; verify
me."
>
>
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> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
> *Figueroa, Johnny
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 10, 2006 4:55 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [ActiveDir] Password resets
>
> There is talk about using a home grown speech recognition system
> to reset a user's password. You would need to enroll, the system
> would record your voice and if you ever wanted to reset your
> password, it would ask you to repeat a word of its choice.
>
> The system would use a service account with the ability to reset
> passwords and turn on the option to force the user to reset the
> password at logon.
>
> I am just sending this out to get some feedback. I would have a
> challenge trying to exclude certain groups from being able to do
> this, like IT folks with elevated credentials. Unfortunately those
> IT folks are in the same OU as the users that want this
> functionality.
>
> Thoughts on any part of this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Johnny Figueroa
> Supervisor Network Operations & Support
> Network Services
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