Have you ever heard of "brainprint"?
It is a brand new system which uses EEG (electroencephalograph) technology to track brain metrics relevant to cognitive performance. Binghamton University has found that brainprint system can identify people with 100% accuracy based on the results and they then prove that if the system can identify your brain's reaction to certain words, it could be used to replace passwords in the near future.
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| the illustration of brainprint |
What Can We Do With "Brainprint"?
A brainprint can be recorded while you're looking at a series of images that are designed to elicit unique responses from person to person. And since everyone will have different feeling about the images individual, the EEG system would record the brain activity in response to the stimulus and setting the password after you had seen a hundred of those pictures.
With the system, according to Binghamton University's new study, you might not need to remember those complicated e-mail, communication software and bank account passwords any longer when the way your brain responds to certain words could be used to replace passwords.
Brainprint process video:
High-security sites
The most attractive points in brainprint technology are they can be cancelled (the person can easily do another EEG test and record it again), cannot be imitated or stolen by malicious software as the way a finger or retina can.
“If someone’s fingerprint is stolen, that person can’t just grow a new finger to replace the compromised fingerprint — the fingerprint for that person is compromised forever. Fingerprints are ‘non-cancellable.’ Brainprints, on the other hand, are potentially cancellable. So, in the unlikely event that attackers were actually able to steal a brainprint from an authorized user, the authorized user could then ‘reset’ their brainprint,” psychology faculty member of the Binghamton University, Sarah Laszlo explained.
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| psychology faculty member of the Binghamton University, Sarah Laszlo |
In conclusion, the brainprint technology is used for recording each person brain activity and turn the result into passwords that nobody else in the world could imitate or steal. It is considered to be worldwide used in the future because of it high-security feature. With this technology, we don't have to worry about our accounts might be hacked anymore.
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I think the technology really goes beyond the limit! The technique you introduces this week is like something that would appear in some movies. However,it's actually true existing in our modern world! I think this technique is really useful and is highly like to become a trend several years later. We not only don't have to remember tons of password and bear the risk of forgetting them, brainprint can also provide better security to our privacy. Kudos to scientists!
回覆刪除I have only heard that people use their retina as their password. I still cannot imagine that in what way we could use our brain as our password. You know that people usually change their thought, and our brain waves are easily changed because of our emotion. When we see the images, we may have different feelings under different emotion, don’t we?
回覆刪除Wow this new invention really makes me feel surprised. If it can practice in the future, I think we can apply it in many aspects and works to save our time and money. This new technology seems to be convenience for human to express our thoughts easily. Looking forward reading your next blog next week.
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