[Discuss] Fidelity voice-recognition security?

[marco.milano at gmx.com (Marco Milano)]

On 11/22/2017 01:15 PM, Joe Polcari wrote:
> As already mentioned - my voice can be recorded. Not secure at all.

If they are also requiring that you call from your "registered phone",
maybe it is not as bad as it looks. (Although fake CID is getting very common
these days.)

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> 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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