Wednesday, November 28, 2007

File. Close. No!

I enjoyed listening to Scott Hanselman's podcast interview of Larry Osterman today. Larry has been working at Microsoft for more than 23 years now and usually has words of interest to software developers on his blog.

As the discussion turned to security issues I was reminded of a security issue I pointed out to a colleague back in, well, I believe it was the first half of the 90's. The issue: the attack vector brought about by speaker-independent voice recognition. The scenario: the disgruntled office worker running through the cubicle farm, shouting "File. Close. No! File. Close. No!"

It amuses me to think that perhaps the new ribbon-and-pearl command structure of Office 2007 apps has gone a long way in negating that issue. :)

 

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