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Brain waves may replace computer passwords
Computer passwords may soon be a thing of the past, replaced by "passthoughts" that users only have to think to have applied, U.S. researchers say.
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, say they're studying the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication as a substitute for passwords.
Biometrics -- fingerprint scans, retina scans, or facial or voice recognition -- have long been seen as more secure for computer authentication than passwords, hard to forge or steal, but such systems have proven to be slow, intrusive and expensive, the researchers from Berkeley's School of Information said....
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