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Crime of the future–biometric spoofing? - Security & Availability - Toolkits - ZDNet Asia (via Slashdot)
One of the greatest dangers with using biometrics as an authentication (or worse, an identification) mechanism is that when (not if) some sort of spoofing or forgery happens there is no way to revoke it! Combined with the fact that biometric identifiers are left indiscriminately by people everywhere this is especially dangerous (my fingerprints are on anything I touch, I leave DNA samples wherever I go, my voice is recorded “for training purposes” everytime I call a company).
The news that ABN Amro are introducing voice recognition for customers seems to have been greated positively (including by Bruce Schneier here), but despite making the system reliable (testing on people with colds is a clever touch) I wonder what’s been done to prevent high fidelity recordings of a voice being used in place! Maybe they send someone round to permanently alter your vocal cords!
I also wonder how the situation would deal with this woman? Or maybe ABN send “the boys” round to “invoke” this syndrome when someone’s voice is spoofed!
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December 15th, 2007 at 2:54 pm