Pindrop

12 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Vijay Balasubramaniyan · said 14 times in 6 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Supported
Balasubramanian: The Dropbox breach actually resulted from reused credentials from other leaks
“We saw this in the entire Dropbox leak, right? Like everyone said Dropbox had been compromised, But what these fraudsters had done had figured out username, passwords, and all these other breaches that actually worked on Dropbox.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 26:05 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balasubramanian: Enterprise customers now operate under the assumption they are breached
“Yeah, I think, you know, whoever we talk to makes the assumption that they've been breached. They've been breached, ah, they have to have great monitoring systems to understand the extent of the breach, you know, what's, what's going out, right?”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:18 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Balasubramanian: Security must become as fundamental to developers as scalability
“Most people, when they talk about, okay, when we put the solution, it shouldn't break as soon as we have 100,000 users hitting the site, right? It's a, it's ingrained in everybody's mind that you need performance, scalable code. What we need to do is add to th…”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 7:56 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Balasubramanian: New technologies without built-in security fail instantly against basic fraud
“A lot of, you know, new technologies, when they get introduced without security paradigms in place, they immediately break at the basic onslaught of a fraudster.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:00 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Balasubramanian: Pindrop verifies identity using voice emotion, urgency, and device fingerprints
“We look at a variety of things, right? We look at your voice. We look at the device that you're coming from, and, you know, the fingerprint that's, ah, inbuilt into it through a variety of ways. We look at things that your voice is doing. Emotion, duress, urge…”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:27 a16z Podcast | Making Security More Useable
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Pindrop proved the LeBron James Paris Olympics audio was a deepfake
“We were called into one of these deep fakes where LeBron James apparently was saying bad things about the coach during the Paris Olympics. It wasn't LeBron James. It was a deep fake. We actually provided his organ his management team the necessary detail so th…”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 18:08 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Pindrop traced the fake Biden robocall to shut down the perpetrator
“So not only did we come in and say this was a deep fake, but we identified The, we have something called source tracing, which tells us which AI application was used to create this deep fake. So we identified the deep fake and then we worked with that AI appli…”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 9:02 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Balasubramaniyan: Deepfakes surged 1,400% in the first half of 2024
“There has been a 1400% increase in the amount of deep fakes we've seen this year in the first six months compared to all of last year.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 10:41 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balasubramaniyan: Deepfake attacks grew from monthly to daily per customer
“In 2023, we were seeing essentially one deep fake a month in some customer, right? So it was just one deep fake a month, and some customer would face it. It wasn't a widespread problem. But this year, we've now seen one deep fake per customer per day.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 10:09 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024
Assertion Supported
Balasubramaniyan: Biden robocall watermark test yielded only 2% recovery
“Like the President Biden robocall that I referenced before, when it finally showed up, the system that actually generated it had a watermark in it. But when they tested it against that watermark, They only were able to extract two percent.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 13:53 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balasubramaniyan: AI deepfake detection is 100x cheaper than generation
“It's way cheaper to detect deepfix, right? Because if you think about it, the closest example is Apple released its model, you know, that could run on device. And even that model, which is a small model in order to do lots of things like voice to text and thin…”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 19:44 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
Oct 30, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Balasubramaniyan: Pindrop detects voice deepfakes with 99% accuracy, 1% false positives
“They're completely detectable. Right now we're detecting them with 99% detection rate with a one percent false positive rate.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Oct 30, 2024 ▶ 11:14 Can We Detect a Deepfake?
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