[Discuss] Fidelity voice-recognition security?

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 12:17:30 EST 2017


On 11/21/2017 11:27 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
> I declined the feature. Fingerprinting a voice uniquely over a
> low-quality telephone line? I can't imagine that's more secure than a
> non-obvious password. What does the security crowd here think?

Passwords suck. Voices are unique. In principle, voice identification
can be a good authentication system. In practice, it depends on how many
retries and how much deviation from a given user's baseline the system
permits.

-- 
Rich P.



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