It may seem like we’re moving away from logins and complex passwords and are going towards fingerprint and retinal identification, but in fact, we’re already over that! Thanks to a team of researchers at the University of Buffalo (UB), we’re now moving towards heart scan computer identifications.
The UB team has developed a new computer security system using dimensions of the user’s heart as the identifier. Their system uses low-level Doppler radar to measure the person’s heart and then continually monitors their heart to make sure it is that particular person and no one else trying to run the computer.
“We would like to use it for every computer because everyone needs privacy,” said Wenyao Xu, Ph.D., who is the new study’s lead author, and an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Besides, logging-ins and logging-outs are tedious, says Xu.
If you’re worried about the radar’s effects on your health, the researchers explain that the signal strength is much less than WiFi. And since nowadays we live in a WiFi surrounding world every day, the system does not pose any health threat.
Besides computer security, the new system could also improve smartphone security as well as airport screening barricades.
Reference:
University at Buffalo via ScienceDaily (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170925133000.htm)
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