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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

#103
What you are is one factor. What happened to MFA approach here? Also it is a factor we cannot change, so if someone obtain a video of our face like that or success in making a working fake, we cannot change our look like we can with a password.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why are so many websites called title-of-the-article-dot-com ai-generated? I suppose the kind of people making them just don't have a blog or something

why are so many people so comfortable making this assumption, based on writing style or a checklist of supposed tells or notoriously unreliable detectors, and making kneejerk accusations like they can do no harm and are already settled fact? It's one thing to feel suspicious or disregard the article yourself, but being so incautious about making public accusations without solid evidence is another. At best, you've id…

There is no information about the author of this article, and it has the "AI smell". It's safer to operate under the assumption that it is AI generated unless and until the author reveals themself or at least anonymously confirms that it is not AI generated. This saves you from having made a fool of yourself by spreading it around, if it later becomes apparent that AI wrote it.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

#108
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If there were a Doomsday Clock for how close we are to "please drink verification can" ( https://files.catbox.moe/eqg0b2.png ), scientists would now move it to 3 minutes to midnight.

We're zero minutes away from "some scammer said they were google and I had to show them my butthole to login".

You mean my silly idea NakedEntry would become real?

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

#109

I'm waiting for the new killer feature where "Sign In With Google" popup overlay dialogs go away forever and never come back.

uBlock Origin with the EasyList Annoyances filter is better than anything that Google can ever provide. I haven't seen Google popups in my desktop browser for a long time.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

#110

I would love to know how they are going to handle deepfakes. Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts?

They or the government is going to make deepfakes using this.
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