wired.com— Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, are exploring the possibility of a biometric security device that will use a person's thoughts to authenticate her or his identity.
Apr 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
no. you, sir, infuriate me. Along with the people that said the didn't want mind controlled devices because what if they thought about sex, IT CAN ONLY DO WHAT ITS PROGRAMED TO DO!
I am beside myself wondering how many of you actually read the article or understand what it's talking about. Even if you knew someone's password, you could never use it because your brainwaves are different for that word or image than theirs. That is why it is secure. Every person has a different brain-wave signature than every other person. Your brain encodes memories differently, retrieves them differently, processes differently. You could never think someone else's password, but you could record their password and have it translated into a binary representation according to the device and hack the device to trick it into transferring the binary Data to the computer in order to grant authentication. That's about the only way, unless you're trying to crack the password to a safe or something, then you could just use a bomb or something. :)
adml_shakeApr 27, 2006
ok, that joke was already beat to death on /., which is where i'm guessing you got it from....so enough...
birdwatcher3000Apr 27, 2006
This will be the worst method ever; we'll all be able to guess each other's passwords as we'll all be thinking...S E X
mermApr 27, 2006
removed
shinynewApr 27, 2006
no. you, sir, infuriate me. Along with the people that said the didn't want mind controlled devices because what if they thought about sex, IT CAN ONLY DO WHAT ITS PROGRAMED TO DO!
tidejweApr 27, 2006
I am beside myself wondering how many of you actually read the article or understand what it's talking about. Even if you knew someone's password, you could never use it because your brainwaves are different for that word or image than theirs. That is why it is secure. Every person has a different brain-wave signature than every other person. Your brain encodes memories differently, retrieves them differently, processes differently. You could never think someone else's password, but you could record their password and have it translated into a binary representation according to the device and hack the device to trick it into transferring the binary Data to the computer in order to grant authentication. That's about the only way, unless you're trying to crack the password to a safe or something, then you could just use a bomb or something. :)
dasbubApr 28, 2006
I'm graduating from Carleton in a month and a half. So deliciously off-topic.
hacktivistApr 28, 2006
Off topic, but sweet bike. holy s**t
ebedeerMar 18, 2009
:)