Google acquires SlickLogin: dogs go wild!
SlickLogin, an Israeli start-up, is behind the technology that allows websites to verify a user's identity by using sound waves. It works by playing a uniquely generated, nearly-silent sound through your computer speakers, which is picked up by an app on your smartphone. The app analyses the sound and sends a signal back to confirm your identity.
The firm confirmed the acquisition on its website but did not provide any financial details of the deal.
Too bad they don't still put whistles inside packages of Cap'n Crunch cereal!
(Score: 1) by Qzukk on Tuesday February 18 2014, @02:35AM
That seems to be the point of it: to authenticate using the proximity of your phone to the computer's speakers. Since the computer and the phone would need to communicate (either directly or indirectly) for the computer to know that the phone had received the signal and OK'd it, I'd expect this to be the second factor in 2FA (so the computer already knows which phone it should expect confirmation from).
Nifty, but it's basically just saving 6 keystrokes for Google Authenticator.