{"id":96413,"date":"2019-09-19T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-think-its-a-good-idea-to-secure-your-phone-using-the-one-thing-you-perpetually-lose"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:43:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:43:48","slug":"researchers-think-its-a-good-idea-to-secure-your-phone-using-the-one-thing-you-perpetually-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-think-its-a-good-idea-to-secure-your-phone-using-the-one-thing-you-perpetually-lose","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Think It\u2019s a Good Idea to Secure Your Phone Using the One Thing You Perpetually Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Apple\u2019s FaceID<\/a> authentication system started moving smartphone users away from relying on fingerprints to secure their mobile devices, which are arguably less secure<\/a>. But researchers think they\u2019ve come up with an even better biometric tool for protecting a device that uses a part of the body that\u2019s nearly impossible to spoof: a user\u2019s ear canals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A team of researchers led by Zhanpeng Jin, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the University of Buffalo\u2019s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, created a new authentication tool called EarEcho, which is somewhat self-explanatory. The team modified a set of off the shelf earbuds with a tiny microphone that points inside the wearer\u2019s ear, not out towards the world around them. It\u2019s not there to pick up ambient sounds to facilitate a noise-canceling or feature, or even the wearer\u2019s voice for making calls; the tiny mic is instead tuned to listen to the echo of sounds as they\u2019re played and then propagate through the ear canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple\u2019s FaceID authentication system started moving smartphone users away from relying on fingerprints to secure their mobile devices, which are arguably less secure. But researchers think they\u2019ve come up with an even better biometric tool for protecting a device that uses a part of the body that\u2019s nearly impossible to spoof: a user\u2019s ear canals. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1412,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-privacy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}