From The New York Times Bits Blog
Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans
By Somini Sengupta
As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough new challenge: How does a machine verify the identity of a human being?Authentication has been a tough nut to crack since the early days of the Web. And despite the notorious risks they carry, user names and passwords have held on....
A more fantastical solution has been developed in a lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Computer scientists there [School of Information professor John Chuang] say a simple and cheap headset can read your mind to verify your thoughts — and save you the work of typing in a password....