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> The contract, an other transaction agreement (OTA) awarded through DOD’s Rapid Innovation Fund, will focus on next-generation identity verification by authent
by CharlesColeman 8y ago
> The contract, an other transaction agreement (OTA) awarded through DOD’s Rapid Innovation Fund, will focus on next-generation identity verification by authenticating users “by their behavior, such as how they walk, type, carry their device, or interact with the screen,” TWOSENSE.AI said in a release.
It sounds like a bad idea. I'm reminded that for many, many years; the "locks" on the US's nuclear weapons had the combination set to all zeros, because the Pentagon was worried the complexity of using an actual combination would mean they'd be rendered useless in wartime [1]. It seems like the height of foolishness to tie military effectiveness to a finicky and unreliable "AI/ML" solution. Soldiers will probably behave differently in wartime, and I can large numbers getting locked out of their devices as a result, at least initially.
[1] Since any war they'd be used in would probably last less than an hour.
- Novashi 8y agoThe moment it requests the user to authenticate by taking a minute or so to display their behaviors because of a false negative, it'll probably be canned
- markovbot 8y ago...unless it's been widely rolled out already. They just need to make sure that it doesn't fuck up during initial testing.
- sofaofthedamned 8y agoI'm looking forward to the moment somebody has to enter the ICBM launch codes a captcha appearing 'click on the traffic lights...'
- ummonk 8y agoAnd they do a good job so the system decides to mine for more data by making them do more images before letting them through.
- therobot24 8y agoyou've never accidentally locked your CAC have you?
- angry_octet 8y agoIt makes just as much sense as 'secret questions' for account unlock but it is dubious for login or continuous validation -- how many times have I used another person's keyboard, or them mine, while working on a set of slides etc?
- baybal2 8y agoThere are 5 buttons on launch pads of Russian road mobile icbms: raise the launch tube, lower the launch tube, arm, disarm, and launch. All road mobile icbms are programmed at the factory. No mid-flight retargeting or anything fancy