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Google Buys Sound Authentication Firm SlickLogin

posted by Cactus on Monday February 17 2014, @09:18PM   
from the I-want-a-whistle-in-my-cereal dept.

Gaaark writes:

Google acquires SlickLogin: dogs go wild!

SlickLogin, an Israeli start-up, is behind the technology that allows websites to verify a user's identity by using sound waves. It works by playing a uniquely generated, nearly-silent sound through your computer speakers, which is picked up by an app on your smartphone. The app analyses the sound and sends a signal back to confirm your identity.

The firm confirmed the acquisition on its website but did not provide any financial details of the deal.

Too bad they don't still put whistles inside packages of Cap'n Crunch cereal!

• Re:Sneakers Re:Sneakers (Score: 3, Interesting) by combatserver on Monday February 17 2014, @10:02PM

  by combatserver (38) on Monday February 17 2014, @10:02PM (#1282)

  "My Voice Is My Passport, Verify Me."

  Now we know why the computer on the Enterprise in Star Trek seemed to pass out information about other crew members like cookies--it was verifying security status of the person talking, not only by a signal from the person's communicator (tech in the article!), but by voice recognition as well, for secondary confirmation.

  I am beginning to think that all the wild tech we are seeing in the last 10-15 years was designed decades ago and was "leaked" via Star Trek in an effort to acclimatize us to the lack of privacy said tech would inevitably lead to.

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  I hope I can change this later...

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• Re:Sneakers (Score: 1) by dmc on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:35AM

  by dmc (188) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @01:35AM (#1425)

  "
  I am beginning to think that all the wild tech we are seeing in the last 10-15 years was designed decades ago and was "leaked" via Star Trek in an effort to acclimatize us to the lack of privacy said tech would inevitably lead to.
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  I think there have only been about 10 trek episodes that covered that theory. Personally I'm pretty sure The X-Files was authorized by the Clintons as a way to reveal classified truths that the overlords don't feel we are ready to know without wrapping them up in several layers of extended metaphor. I'm from Kansas in the heart of the Bible Belt. I can sympathize with the overlords if for instance 15 years ago clear-cut evidence of (e.g. simple non-sentient) life was detected on mars. People around here couldn't have dealt with that reality 15 years ago. Today, maybe. For instance, I recall clearly personally predicting the existence of life more toward the hot-core of the earth a couple years before scientists were 'shocked' to find it (e.g. the hot vents at the bottom of the ocean). After staring at Conway's game of life enough, I find it extremely hard to believe that wherever there are high amounts of energy (earth's core, sun, surface of mars) that life wouldn't find a way to emerge easily enough. Call me crazy all you want- I'll be amused to look back at this comment in 2 or 3 decades if I'm still alive.

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