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Well, if it's down to 6.5 times what I paid for my 'phone, I have to admit it starts to sound a little tempting. 
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Blimey - many times even my own fingerprint won't unlock my S6!
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: It's like the security industry is constantly looking for the next "big thing" and trying all these gimmicks and it's as if the gimmick is the most important thing....even more important than if the method actually works, and the end result is that things are getting less secure, not m
I think a lot of that is probably implementation - they also employ the cheapest workers they can to produce the software, and I suspect that means they get their code from questions in QA...
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OriginalGriff wrote: code from questions in QA
In that case you need no bother yourself with infrared images and contact lenses - just look at the phone with harassment... 
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If they get their code from questions in QA is not what worries me.
I think it is worst if they get the code just from somewhere in the net. At least here there still is a % of people really willing to help that do know what they say.
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I didn't say they got their code from the answers!
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There is a way to destroy the reputation of every mobile phone that does eye recognition. Let its camera face another phone (of the same model) with your eye photo, taken on the same phone.
Now all outcomes fall in one category:
- eye recognition sucks,
- display sucks,
- camera sucks.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: It's like the security industry is constantly looking for the next "big thing" and trying all these gimmicks and it's as if the gimmick is the most important thing....even more important than if the method actually works, and the end result is that things are getting less secure, not more.
Compounded with the fact they are asking forcing us to put more of our information into their hands.
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Loco.
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Bang on.
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
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I was recently required to sign up to voice recognition security when I telephoned a government department. I had to keep repeating the phrase "My Voice is my Password" while it was recorded and analyzed. Now my records are supposedly protected by my voice. That scares me.
What happens when my Bank also starts to use this technology? Then the big online retailers? Then the utility service providers. I only have one voice, so all my accounts will be secured with the same voice print security. That is like forcing everyone to use the same password for all their accounts.
Human nature will have users relax the complexity of their typed passwords because Voice Recognition becomes the main security measure, which is counterproductive for overall security.
One employee in any one organization could steal and abuse all my accounts everywhere using my voice records.
Try playing the hacking game Uplink for a demonstration of what might be possible with voice simulation (I found Uplink on Steam).
Imagine what happens when a large telephone company get their database of bank account details hacked, together with the voice prints of all their customers? Instant access to all the tools necessary for total identify theft.
The responsibility for proving fraud has happened passes from the bank to the customer. Try proving that you didn't transfer all your money to a scammer's account when the bank have what they claim is a recording of you logging in with your voice.
Just because we have the technology to do some things doesn't mean we should.
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Couldn't agree more - it's a technology that will be hacked to buggery by voice synths in a very short space of time. As Griff's link shows, it can even be hacked without technological assistance.
I'm somewhat astonished that an organisation the size of HSBC are using this kind of snake-oil. If I had shares in them, I'd be selling.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'm somewhat astonished that an organisation the size of HSBC are using this kind of snake-oil. If I had shares in them, I'd be selling.
Small fry. The Australian Tax Office has brought this in. I refuse to sign up and keep going through to an operator for verification/
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PeejayAdams wrote: will be hacked to buggery by voice synths
Well, maybe that'll result in improvements in cheap but good voice synthesis!
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it's a technology that will be hacked to buggery by voice synths in a very short space of time
Well, you can already use such kind of technology today. Try this: https://lyrebird.ai/demo
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And what happens when you quit/start drinking/smoking?
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Or what if they bring you to the vet to get you neutered?
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You forgot some relevant points that has nothing to do with hacking...
What happens if you have a bronchitis?
What happens if you have an accident and you damage your vocal chords?
What happens if the microphone of your telephone sucks and has frequency deviations?
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In theory, because it uses about a hundred factors, colds, sore-throats etc. aren't an issue.
In reality, I think it's fair to say that a great many rather fundamental aspects of our voices (speed, tone, accent, pitch and many more) can change with time, mood, energy levels, location, sobriety and all manner of factors before we even get to things like different microphones and signal distortion.
It's hard to imagine that there are aren't huge margins for error built in and margins for error are the last thing you want in a security system!
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So you say - Do not worry, if hundred factors wasn't enough to tell apart twins it will not be enough to diagnose you with cold... How reveling...
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Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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PeejayAdams wrote: It's hard to imagine that there are aren't huge margins for error built in and margins for error are the last thing you want in a security system!
And that was exactly my point.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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