Researchers seek brain wave access to bank accounts and homes

Canadian researchers hope to soon be able to use brain waves to unlock doors and get access to bank accounts. Some companies are already offering iris recognition systems that many countries want to put into biometric passports. But Julie Thorpe, a researcher at Carleton University in Ottawa wants to take the idea much much further.



She says it is possible to do away with key cards, pin numbers and a litany of other security tools that allow people to retrieve bank money, access computer data or enter restricted buildings.

"A user would simply think their password," said Thorpe, who hopes to develop the first biometric security device to read your mind to authenticate users.

Her idea, yet to be proven viable for commercial application, assumes that brainwave signals, like fingerprints, vary slightly from person to person, even when they think alike.

"Everyone's brainwave signal is a bit different even when they think about the same thing. They're unique just like fingerprints," she told AFP.

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HACKERS lining up already with their high-tech hypnosis overrides?

You'd just have to get someone next to their ATM and say "don't think about your password."

:evilgrin:

from those who only appear to be rule followers.

honest.....

The more technology, the more mistakes and fuck-ups. Thanks, but no. Not with this mama.

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couldn't a surreptitious listening device pick it up simultaneously?

The thought behind this appears to be that it will increase security. I wonder whether it will actually make passwords less secure.