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Google Buys Sound Authentication Firm SlickLogin

posted by Cactus on Monday February 17 2014, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
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!

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Popeidol on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:39AM

    by Popeidol (35) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @12:39AM (#1398) Homepage Journal

    It could handle that with a negotiation phase, like dial-up modems. Initial contact is made at a frequency that all functional speakers and microphones can handle, and it steps up from there until they reach failure (or a predetermined max). Then they drop to the last known good frequency and start the verification.

    You could make it pretty fast, and aside from an initial chirp it'd happen as quietly as your equipment allows.