Michael P. Kassner - Any type of bio-identification is secure enough. The bad guys for the most part could care less. Why bother when they can get the digitized sample file much easier.
What do you mean? How could intruders get around bio-identification to, say, break into a bank system?
I think the problem with a fingerprint is that you can't really make a fingerprint password more difficult, but with a voice print, the system can change what you say to make the password challenge more difficult. So if you had a really secure voice recognition account, it might ask you to say a secret series of words that only you knew, for example. A fingerprint could be copied from anything you touched... (or someone might cut off your hand)
Biometrics is a very interesting subject. I think that although a voice print is more secure than a finger print isn't a finger print secure enough? I think its pretty tough if not near impossible to copy someone's finger print.
I remember a post on another blog from Alison a while back about using gait recognition. Where many of these are not ready for primetime yet someday they will be. I can see a combination of biometric technologies being used together rather than just one.
Maybe other people also remember this particular show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNrWgjh9tnU
where Commander Data takes over the whole ship because he can change Capt Picard's voice recognition password to something only an android could remember....
Actually, the problem of using voice recognition while suffering from a cold/flu/etc has been addressed -- and there are a bunch of verification systems that claim to be able to remain effective even when user's voices may be affected by illness (or age!).
I've never used these biometric systems myself, but I'd be more worried that some hackers would be able to re-create a digital version of my voice (or fingerprints/retina/etc) and then my accounts would be forever compromised b/c there's no way to change my biometric passwords once they've been duplicated.
DARPA has been working for a while on biometrics like keyboard interaction. I don't know when we're going to see results, but the idea that you sit down and start using a device, and it recognizes you immediately (or not) is appealing.
Thanks for sharing this article, Raj. Voice recognition has been trouble for long time, there has been lots of researches and improvement around it but we are not there yet unfortunate. If we can make improvement in this area we can ask Siri to keep information secure for us. She can simply give us the information or a temporary key to access whatever we want to access. That way we do not have to store any password for anything.
Yes, I agree that a combo-pack will be how most companies protect data and networks -- at least their most sensitive data -- in the future. When you go into secure buildings, that's how they do it now, too. I can't imagine any organization relying solely on one security system.
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