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Hany Farid (UC Berkeley) says ten seconds of your voice is now enough to beat "voice as password"

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TL;DR: A UC Berkeley digital-forensics researcher just told an interviewer the exact number that quietly retires "voice as password." Ten seconds, per Hany Farid — that's the entire audio budget a bank's voice-biometric layer implicitly assumes an attacker can't clear. No breach, no malware, no pri…

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  1. 2026-09-13 15:18 · r/artificial
    Hany Farid (UC Berkeley) says ten seconds of your voice is now enough to beat "voice as password"

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