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We Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

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Is My Voice Is My Password?

The process, as you heard, is pretty straightforward. The banking system asks you, well, why are you calling? Just say that in your own words. And Lloyd's asked you, okay, please say my voice is my password. After a few seconds, the banking system eventually authenticates it and it believes that it is speaking to me. It's then granted access to my current balance across my different accounts,. My recent transactions, all of that sort of thing. But we got in and we showed that this is possible. This is just me spending five, ten minutes a day when I have a minute, giving it a go. I'm not a persistent hacker.

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