
MarketWatch presents: Can your quirky personality stop a thief?
Barron's Streetwise
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How Stable Are They and How Distinctive Are They?
Financial companies are combating two point two million fraud reports alone in 20 20, says the f t c. They really need a strategy that can effective weed out frodsters without making the rest of our lives even more miserable in the process. The way we use a particular finger to type or swipe or text is really unique to you. And so from those individual data points, what we can generate is a valid usup file and then that's going to be incredibly difficult for a fraudster to spooth. Read described one incident where a phone lying flat on a surface was trying to make hundreds of transactions really quickly. biometrics indicated to his team that there was no way a person could
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