That Shocking Video of Someone You Love? Your Brain Decided It Was Real in 0.2 Seconds.

Your Fingerprint Can Be Checked Without Anyone Ever Seeing It

Your fingerprint can be checked — matched against a watchlist, confirmed at a border — without anyone ever holding a copy of it. Not a partial copy. Not an encrypted file sitting on a server somewhere. No copy at all. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-fingerprint-can-be-checked-without-anyone-ever-seeing-it

Your Passport Is About to Live on Your Phone — and Scammers Can't Wait

Soon, you won't carry your passport. You'll open an app, hold your phone over your old paper passport, and a chip inside it will whisper your identity to a government screener on a video call. No counter. No clerk. No lin Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-passport-is-about-to-live-on-your-phone-and-scammers-cant-wait

Your Kid's Face Is the New Lunch Card — And Nobody's Guarding It

A student at the University of Waterloo walked up to a vending machine to buy a snack. The machine threw an error code on its screen. And that error code revealed something nobody had told them — the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-kids-face-is-the-new-lunch-card-and-nobodys-guarding-it

Flying to Europe This Summer? Plan for a 6-Hour Border Line.

Picture this. You're on an easyJet flight from Milan to Manchester. The plane has a hundred and fifty-six seats. Only thirty-four passengers make it on board. The rest? Still stuck at passport control Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/flying-to-europe-this-summer-plan-for-a-6-hour-border-line

That Urgent Video From Your Boss? Hang Up and Call Back.

A finance worker in Hong Kong sat on a video call with his company's chief financial officer. He saw the executive's face. He heard the voice. By the end of the call, he'd wired out twenty-five million dollars. Every sing Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/that-urgent-video-from-your-boss-hang-up-and-call-back