The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
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The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
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#2One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know".
Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
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#3One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know". Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
I mostly answer unknown calls with monotone "hello" and then wait for their introduction before talking normally.
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#4They make you give a voice sample now when you're arrested. You need to do so in order to use the phone.
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#6One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know". Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
The opening example is of a person listening to their daughter’s voice on an unknown number, how would calling them back help? Or am I missing something obvious?
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#7One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know". Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
The example in the article says the police took her phone. Then her "attorney" gets on to talk instead.
Yes, having a secret code is probably the right answer. My wife's family always has, but mine doesn't. I suppose we should probably fix that.
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#8One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know". Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
I mostly answer unknown calls with monotone "hello" and then wait for their introduction before talking normally.
I mostly just don't answer them unless it seems like something that may be legit.
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#9What’s terrible is each time I am forced to call the bank, the more they try to tell me voice ID is secure and want me to provide my voice to authenticate. Never. Did ya’ll never play Uplink? With voice cloning as good as it is now, there’s no way a voice ID is secure enough for authentication.
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#10One reasonably effective defense: "Okay, let me call you right back." Yes, there's always the whole "my phone is dead, I borrowed someone else's" or "I'm calling from a jail payphone", so I think it might become common practice to start making authentication phrases or "tell me something only we know". Another pillar of basic trust that's being eroded on an industrial scale. Sigh.
Family OTP helps against passphrase leakage