Can you hear me now? How to protect yourself from voice hackers

Published July 20, 2017 This content is archived.

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Scientific American reported on a story by Kui Ren, professor of computer science and engineering, about the limitations of using voice-based authentication to secure a smartphone and research he is conducting to overcome those limitations.

“If a smartphone detects a magnet nearby during the process of voice authentication, that can be an indicator that a real human might not be doing the talking,” he writes. “That’s just one part of our system.”

Read the Scientific American story here.

Read the Houston Chronicle story here.

Read the San Francisco Chronicle story here.