Heartbeat Could Someday Be Used to Replace the Password

[dizzy_davidh]

A nice idea but quite simply it isn't practical to rely on any one technique for such an important task as access security. Bio-metrics all have flaws such as how the data that validates individuals is stored.

I found in my research on the subject (former PHD study) that finger-print data systems and they way the pattern is stored is key their usefulness as several systems have already been compromised by way of mimicked the actual finger or by circumenting the validation process.

The only truly secure system is really long password whose validation data and process is fully encrypted and the password itself is completely nonsense. That does mean that as a human you would have to remember (and not disclose in any way) a difficult amount of data which is of course what has led to the belief that the uniqueness of biometrics is a means of avoiding having to remember such a nonsense password but you only need recall that curreny DNA techniques are not 100% accurate and the supposed uniqueness of anything doesn't account for the the random chance of a fluke-match (remember the old monkeys-typewriters-shakespeare analogy).

 

[richboyliang]

what if you just exercised?

 

[livebriand]

I don't quite get this - if you're relaxed, your heartbeat is slower. If you were just running or you're stressed out, it'll be faster. I think I prefer a regular password to this...

 

[morne]

Guess all the vampires would be mad at this... imortality and no way to keep your info safe since you have no heartbeat... (considering they existed)

 

[ProDigit10]

don't watch pron, don't run a marathon, and don't be dead to turn on your device, or you won't be able!