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[Discuss] Fidelity voice-recognition security?



On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:53:44 -0500, Marco Milano wrote:
> 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.)

There's a different system, automatic number identification, that is
used to allow toll-free lines to identify the calling line for billing
purposes.  It's completely separate from caller ID.
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