{"id":189629,"date":"2024-05-17T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/security-checks-reaching-towards-your-brain"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:29:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:29:42","slug":"security-checks-reaching-towards-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/security-checks-reaching-towards-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/security-checks-reaching-towards-your-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Descartes said \u201cI think therefore I am\u201d he probably didn\u2019t know that he was answering a security question. Using behavioral or physical characteristics to identify people, biometrics, has gotten a big boost in the EU. The Orwellian sounding <a title=\"Humabio Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humabio-eu.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">HUMABIO<\/a> (Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behavioral Analysis) is a well funded research project that seeks to combine sensor technology with the latest in biometrics to find reliable and non-obtrusive ways to identify people quickly. One of their proposed methods: scanning your brain stem. That\u2019s right, in addition to reading your retinas, looking at your finger prints, and monitoring your voice, the security systems of the future may be scanning your brain.<\/p>\n<p>How could they actually read your brain? What kind of patterns would they use to authenticate your identity? Yeah, that haven\u2019t quite figured that out yet. HUMABIO is still definitely in the \u201cpre-commercial\u201d and \u201cproof of concept\u201d phase. They do have a nice <a title=\"Humabio Ethics Manual\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humabio-eu.org\/docs\/HUMABIO-D1_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ethics manual to read<\/a>, and they\u2019ve actually written some <a title=\"Humabio Vision Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humabio-eu.org\/vision.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cstories\u201d that illustrate the uses<\/a> of their various works in progress, but they haven\u2019t produced a fieldable instrument yet. In fact, this aspect of the STREP (Specific Targeted Research Project) would hardly be remarkable if we didn\u2019t know more about the available technology from other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Descartes said \u201cI think therefore I am\u201d he probably didn\u2019t know that he was answering a security question. Using behavioral or physical characteristics to identify people, biometrics, has gotten a big boost in the EU. The Orwellian sounding HUMABIO (Human Monitoring and Authentication using Biodynamic Indicators and Behavioral Analysis) is a well funded research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,47,1412,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-neuroscience","category-privacy","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}