Sneakers (1992): My Voice Is My Passport

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN invokes it as a joke or reference whenever voice cloning or voice authentication comes up.

What it is

A one-minute clip from the 1992 film Sneakers in which characters defeat a voice-authentication system by splicing recorded phrases, ending on the line "My voice is my passport." It was posted to illustrate a post on government surveillance.

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Cites larntz · 2023-07 · on “Kevin Mitnick has died”

At first I thought this was a reference to the movie Sneakers ( [this video] ), but after searching it seems Wells Fargo also does this, [LINK] .