A BBC PASSWORD STORY
In all the years that I have been the primary physician for children and young families, especially as children start to become gradually more independent, I have promoted the idea of a family password.
A typical scenario would be that a teenager is with friends and starts to feel uncomfortable about what’s going on. In a telephone call to a parent, the teen would say a secret phrase like did you hear from uncle Sam? This would mean “I don’t feel comfortable with what’s going on, please come and get me“.
I just read an article on the BBC website saying that a secret password or pass phrase could be a weapon against scamming with AI voices.
The article suggests that if we get a call from what sounds like a family member saying they’re in trouble and need money or, worse, want us to talk to their kidnapper, we need to do something very quickly to verify their identity. Asking for the family password can quickly expose an AI imitation of our loved one’s voice.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260804-why-your-family-needs-a-secret-codeword
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