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

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