Lend Me Your Ears: Securing Smart-Home Entry with Earprints

Fingerprints and DNA are well-known forms of biometrics, thanks to crime dramas on television and at the movies. But as technology drives us toward the Internet of Things—the interconnection of computer devices in common objects—other forms of biometrics are sure to enter the cultural consciousness beyond use as forensics tools. For example, the distinctive physical characteristics that are the foundation of biometrics are increasingly used in computer science as forms of identification and access restriction.

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