Sneakers (1992): My Voice Is My Passport
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A one-minute clip from the 1992 film Sneakers in which characters defeat a voice-authentication system by splicing recorded phrases, ending on the line "My voice is my passport." It was posted to illustrate a post on government surveillance.
HN invokes it as a joke or reference whenever voice cloning or voice authentication comes up.
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6 comments from Hacker News
That was one of my first thoughts too [1]. I doubt it currently will do so as it does sound fairly robotic. It does sound closer however than other demos I've heard so i think we're probably on the way. [1] [VIDEO]
Such a system should prompt two-factor auth. Once the license plate is recognized, an auth request is pushed to Andy's phone and then he verifies by voice. [VIDEO]
Huh. This is strange. It's asking me to say "My voice is my passport. Authorize me." (Hint: [VIDEO] )
I will not be silent until authentication works like this: [VIDEO] Or until it works like this: [LINK] And then logging in will look exactly like this: [LINK]
At first I thought this was a reference to the movie Sneakers ( [VIDEO] ), but after searching it seems Wells Fargo also does this, [LINK] .
That scene from Sneakers would be so different nowadays. [1] "My voice is my passport. Verify me." [2] 1. [LINK] 2. [VIDEO]