Brain Fingerprinting

[Tates]

This could work.......

 

[MichaelD]

Hmm. Interesting concept and article. I have personally beaten a lie detector. Twice. If you are calm and don't things phase you (like a cop yelling in your face......stinky pig) you can beat a polygraph. Now, the brain wave thing, I dunno. You can be thinking about something but not blink your eyes, breathe deeply, squirm in your seat etc, but you ARE thinking about it....I guess that would be pretty infalible. Cool article.

 

[Zenmervolt]

From the page with more description (liked to in the ZDNet article), "It's more accurate because everything is done by machine. There is no possibility of human error."

This reminds me of of 2001: A Space Odyssey, "We are, for all practical purposes, completely foolproof and incapable of error." (H.A.L. describing the 9000 series.)

Also from the more detail page, "It aids law enforcement by allowing us to easily capture anyone we want to talk with or arrest, i.e., it creates a convenient and precise dragnet for capturing criminals."

Is that really such a good thing? I'm not hiding anything, but I still sure don't want Big Brother to be able to track me through almost anything I do. I'll agree that the brain fingerprinting would be accurate, but it strikes me as being no different from say having to have your real fingerprints taken whenever you go somewhere public. You could be tracked down through any place using this authentication method within a very short period of time. I know it doesn't sound as though it would be a problem for those with nothing to hide, but the potential for abuse is huge, and to downplay that potential as the article does is simply irresponsible journalism IMO.

Zenmervolt