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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by burnte on Sunday January 14, 2018 @01:54AM (#16143151)
"My voice is my passport, verify me."
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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by praulv on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:24AM (#16143969)
*password I believe. Upvoted.
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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by jsnell on Sunday January 14, 2018 @08:36AM (#16144187)
No, "passport". It was clearly a reference to the voice authentication hack in _Sneakers_.
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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by burnte on Monday January 15, 2018 @01:13AM (#16148849)
Indeed. They took a bunch of smaller words and spliced them together to fake his voice print. Cambridge Consultants are clearly harvesting our voice prints for the CIA. ;)
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Re:Is Your English Accent British or American? by praulv on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:10PM (#16146482)
We have something very similar in the UK tax service (HMRC) which is "password".
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