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[Discuss] Fidelity voice-recognition security?



As already mentioned - my voice can be recorded. Not secure at all.

On 11/22/17, 12:17 PM, "Discuss on behalf of Richard Pieri"
<discuss-bounces+joe=polcari.com at blu.org on behalf of
richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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