- Among the pieces of evidence that Google suggests the Trust API could use are some obvious biometric indicators, such as your face shape and voice pattern, as well as some less obvious ones: how you move, how you type and how you swipe on the screen. With the service continually running in the background of the phone, it can keep track of whether those indicators match how it knows you use your phone.
I'm not sure mankind is ready for this...
Repeat after me: Biometrics are a replacement for a username, not a password. This shit will eventually get hacked, and good luck changing your face when that happens.
I'm by no means a cryptographer, but I'm worried about the security implications of this. It concerns me that they compared the security of Trust API to fingerprints, which are notoriously insecure. Even if the new api is 10x as secure as a fingerprint, a normal password is, to my understanding, many times stronger than that. It seems to me that we should be seeking to make systems more secure, rather than less. Convenience is of course always a factor, but to me it's second to security.
My phone supposedly has some of the latest and greatest finger print recognition software and it still screws up. So like, I grow a beard and my password fails. What if I had one and shave it. Or....gods forbid I get older and age like every other damn living thing! Lol google comes up with some cool stuff sometimes, but idk. I agree...are we really ready for more annoyance and privacy invasions? Minority Report style adds etc. The future is not at all like I pictured it when Doc Brown showed me the way. I'll take the 80s again and less personal data infringement.
This gave me a smile. The 1980s had very little personal data on the internet to infringe. Can you imagine how it would be to turn the clock back to that time technology-wise? Everything would grind to a halt. I get your point though. It would be nice if the hackers and attempts to stay ahead of them. along with corporations trying to find ways to market to people by invading their privacy would go back to a simpler time. Welcome to Hubski!I'll take the 80s again and less personal data infringement.
Haha! Yeah, I love when people catch my subtext. Thanks for the warm welcome!
I am not only worried about the security or this method, I am worried about my privacy. How far is this going to go? Tracking my movements, knowing my face and voice... this won't be used only for authentication, Google offers a "free" service and we all know there is no such thing as free beer, I wonder who their actual clients are and what they are going to do with our data.
Thanks! Didn't see that post until I already had this one up
That was pretty much my thought reading the article. The clincher was the last line of the article. I'd have to see this in action before I felt secure about it. Just intuitively, it doesn't sound very secure.I'm not sure mankind is ready for this...
Google declined to comment.