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"My voice is my password" brings back memories of hacking banks, only in Uplink. What?!? How is this security? Even back in 2000 this is a bad idea. It's even w

"My voice is my password" brings back memories of hacking banks, only in Uplink. What?!? How is this security? Even back in 2000 this is a bad idea. It's even worse today.

lightspot21 4y ago
>Uplink Woah. I haven't heard about this game in like a decade! Thanks for the nostalgia.
- lukevp 4y ago
  This game was so fun! It was one of the things that got me interested in software development, along with Learn to Program BASIC (a game about programming games)
- gabereiser 4y ago
  My grey beard must be showing. I remember it like it was yesterday. The pure OpenGL graphics, the "slide in from the right" email "spam". The matrix-like tumbler of hex that would "crack" an encryption. It was a perfect game for a small studio.
- therein 4y ago
  I think many of us played that game a little too much when we were young. I remember always going back to it.
- Tryk 4y ago
  Great game, it's actually on Steam. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/
e12e 4y ago
2000?! Never forget - "Sneakers". Get off my lawn.. ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64
- gabereiser 4y ago
  Yeah that's where they got the "idea" from. I didn't know a bank would actually consider this "security".
- zizee 4y ago
  I watched to again just a couple of nights ago. It still holds up! What a great cast. When I watched the "voice is my passport" sequence, I still enjoyed it, but I immediately thought of our recent ability to mimic a voice speaking any sentence, just by supplying a few minutes of training data. How long until people start recieving voicemails from scammers in their boss's voice? How long until we can filter voices in real time to convert anyone to sound like anyone else? Video is also not that far away. Will I be able to send my AI doppleganger to videocall standups? On the plus side, it will help enable things like proper double blind interviews, to allow for gender bias free interviews. It will also help anonymity, or people with disabilities. In an unrelated note, I had forgotten that President Roslin was in it and was such a fox (I'll probably say that about Battlestar in another twenty years after I have aged past her, like I have now caught up to her in Sneakers :-p

"My voice is my password" brings back memories of hacking banks, only in Uplink. What?!? How is this security? Even back in 2000 this is a bad idea. It's even worse today.

lightspot21 4y ago

>Uplink Woah. I haven't heard about this game in like a decade! Thanks for the nostalgia.

lukevp 4y ago
This game was so fun! It was one of the things that got me interested in software development, along with Learn to Program BASIC (a game about programming games)
gabereiser 4y ago
My grey beard must be showing. I remember it like it was yesterday. The pure OpenGL graphics, the "slide in from the right" email "spam". The matrix-like tumbler of hex that would "crack" an encryption. It was a perfect game for a small studio.
therein 4y ago
I think many of us played that game a little too much when we were young. I remember always going back to it.
Tryk 4y ago
Great game, it's actually on Steam. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1510/Uplink/

e12e 4y ago

2000?! Never forget - "Sneakers". Get off my lawn.. ;) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64

gabereiser 4y ago
Yeah that's where they got the "idea" from. I didn't know a bank would actually consider this "security".
zizee 4y ago
I watched to again just a couple of nights ago. It still holds up! What a great cast. When I watched the "voice is my passport" sequence, I still enjoyed it, but I immediately thought of our recent ability to mimic a voice speaking any sentence, just by supplying a few minutes of training data. How long until people start recieving voicemails from scammers in their boss's voice? How long until we can filter voices in real time to convert anyone to sound like anyone else? Video is also not that far away. Will I be able to send my AI doppleganger to videocall standups? On the plus side, it will help enable things like proper double blind interviews, to allow for gender bias free interviews. It will also help anonymity, or people with disabilities. In an unrelated note, I had forgotten that President Roslin was in it and was such a fox (I'll probably say that about Battlestar in another twenty years after I have aged past her, like I have now caught up to her in Sneakers :-p