Study reveals that responses within your brain to particular words might take place of passwords

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HONG KONG: You’re sitting at the computer, ready to log into your bank’s website to manage your accounts.
Password? Who needs one? Just thinking about certain words could let you log in, researchers suggest.
Scientists from Binghamton University in New York say a study they conducted revealed that responses within your brain to particular words might take the place of passwords.
Writing in the journal Neurocomputing, the researchers describe how they observed and recorded brain signals in 45 study participants while the volunteers read through a list containing 75 acronyms like FBI and DVD.
The reaction of the region in the brain related to reading and word recognition was different for each acronym and unique to each volunteer, the researchers said.
The difference was so significant a computer was able to use the signals to identify a particular volunteer from their brainwaves with an accuracy level of 94 percent, they report in their study they’ve entitled “Brainprint.”
The finding suggests that future security systems could verify any person’s identity by simply analyzing their brainwaves, says study co-author Sarah Laszlo.