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Yes. Then I listened to the samples, and was relieved that it's not good enough to handle a well-known voice impersonation... yet. My primary worry is for crim
by dsr_ 4y ago
Yes. Then I listened to the samples, and was relieved that it's not good enough to handle a well-known voice impersonation... yet.
My primary worry is for criminal misuse. There's a class of scams where the scammers find elderly victims, call them, and pretend to be their children or grandchildren on vacation in a plausible city and suddenly in need of money to help get their passport back or a ticket home.
There are any number of cases where I have accepted an order worth large sums of money over the phone from someone I have previously dealt with and feel familiar with their voice.
- rwmj 4y agoOnly a year ago, my bank replaced their (already not very secure) second factor authentication with voice recognition.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoIt’s very concerning how ubiquitous this very soon to be insecure authentication factor is. https://www.fidelity.com/security/fidelity-myvoice/overview https://www.fidelity.com/security/fidelity-myvoice/overview https://www.schwab.com/voice-id https://www.schwab.com/voice-id https://blogs.perficient.com/2016/04/18/3-benefits-of-vanguards-voice-verification-feature/ https://blogs.perficient.com/2016/04/18/3-benefits-of-vangua... https://www.chase.com/personal/voice-biometrics https://www.chase.com/personal/voice-biometrics
- chinathrow 4y agoThey will recycle it for sure once fraud hits their internal thresholds. Until that: self defense.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoIt's mind boggling that the banks, who you think would have the most to gain from staying ahead of the tech scam curve, can't be bothered and instead continue to play a slow defense. I suppose they aren't losing THEIR money.
- silon42 4y agoTime to look into robot-voice plugins that activate when the caller is not in the contacts.