SlickLogin was an Israeli start-up company that developed sound-based

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alternatives. The company's goal was to enable end users to

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easily to password-protected websites by using a uniquely generated sound. The company was founded by Or Zelig, who served as the firm's

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, Eran Galili, CTO, and Ori Kabeli, VP of R&D. They were recent graduates of the IDF's elite cyber-security unit-security unit and spent over six years working on

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projects. In February 2014,

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announced the acquisition of the company. SlickLogin used various protocols to start verifying your phone's position:

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, visual markers like QR codes, and

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. Their self-dubbed "

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" was the use of uniquely generated sounds intentionally made inaudible to the human ear. The user's computer played sound through speakers, while a mobile app used the device's built-in microphone to pick up the audio, analyze it, and send the signal to the site's server for

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* {{official website, https://web.archive.org/web/20140217104906/http://www.slicklogin.com/ (archived) Google acquisitions Software companies of Israel Information technology companies of Israel Companies based in Tel Aviv

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