mjmeyer - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Cyber 9/11? (Score 1) 479

by mjmeyer on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @07:31PM (#24489519) Attached to: Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws

* Successfully attack all 13 root name servers simultaneously.
* Middle-east underwater fiber-seeking backhoes from earlier this year immigrate to USA. (If it happens close to home, it's terrorism!)
* Something like the Storm worm starts emailing randomly-named child pornography to everybody (everyone's a criminal).

...to name a few possibilities. That's probably some hypothetical scenario which eludes me which could lead to a legal requirement to have your private encryption keys on file for the government. Inevitably, the database of private keys would be abused and/or stolen.

Mac Version of NaturallySpeaking Launched 176

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @03:01AM from the listen-what-i-say dept.

WirePosted writes "MacSpeech, the leading supplier of speech recognition software for the Mac, has canned its long-running iListen product and has launched a Mac version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the top-selling Windows speech recognition product. MacSpeech had made a licensing agreement with Dragon's developer, Nuance Communications. The new product is said to reach 99% accuracy after 5 minutes of training."

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