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My bank's (HSBC) telephone banking offers the option do away with a PIN and instead a 'my voice is my password'phrase system. I'm glad I never opted in.
by Angostura 7y ago
My bank's (HSBC) telephone banking offers the option do away with a PIN and instead a 'my voice is my password'phrase system.
I'm glad I never opted in.
- ropiwqefjnpoa 7y agoOh god, Sneakers
- Angostura 7y agoJust to be clear - I'm Robert Redford
- mmazing 7y agopassPORT Also, that whole scenario would have been far less cool if they just recorded the dude for 5 seconds doing anything and pulled a whole CSI-style "put his voice into the visual basic GUI neural network and it works, bro!" I love Sneakers.
- bidluo 7y agoThe Tax Office in Australia does the same thing and push it every time I call, I imagine it branches out to the other gov bodies too. It's fun listening to the whole spiel about 'Like a fingerprint your voice is unique to you'.
- fasturdotcom 7y agounchecked, the progress of this technology and the staleness of banking security might cause entire institutions to fail
- shostack 7y agoI recently called Chase and got some message like "your voice may be recorded for verification purposes" or something to that extent. Creeped me out and I don't recall ever opting into that specifically, so I'm guessing it is an opt out buried in some agreement.