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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:How does this work? (Score: 1) by edIII on Tuesday February 18 2014, @06:19PM

  by edIII (791) on Tuesday February 18 2014, @06:19PM (#1977)

  It's a novel form of out-of-band key exchange.

  In of itself, it does not seem to be anything special, or tremendously difficult to hack. It just sounds like a really cool idea, and sometimes it really is just the story, or form over function.

  However, it does seem that you would need to attack multiple networks simultaneously. That raises the bar somewhat, but nothing that would seem to frustrate the NSA too much. I've bet they seen much harder nuts to crack in the TAO. .... That being said though, how many smartphones suffer from malware and their own dedicated industry providing smartphone malware tools?

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