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The server side of major services already perform some very sophisticated probablistic authentication mechanisms. Ever had Google or facebook ask you to sign in
by mikecb 11y ago
The server side of major services already perform some very sophisticated probablistic authentication mechanisms. Ever had Google or facebook ask you to sign in again when you got off a flight or accessed a sensitive setting? You've experienced it firsthand.
Taking it down to the device level is just acknowledging the danger of loss or stolen second factors. Further, frameworks like tensorflow may allow the learning model to run directly on your phone, alleviating a lot of the concerns enumerated in this article.
- idlewords 11y agoI've never been prompted to reauthenticate to Facebook or Google based on travel, actually, and if I was, I would be paranoid about a MITM attack. Has this happened to anyone?
- sirsar 11y agoFacebook in the past has required me to authenticate during travel by showing me pictures in which my friends are tagged, and asking me to name them. Of course this was made more difficult by my friends' tendencies to abuse the image tagging feature...