Brainwave Identification Could Be the Next new Password Authentication

Passwords' days are numbered as technology moves forward and looks for ways we might generate access keys that are supremely secure. Could brainwaves be the answer?
 
With the number of access codes needed in today's online world, those passwords are hard to remember and as hackers become even more sophisticated the password itself is becoming less and less safe.
 
Fingerprint access are being been cracked by perpetrators. It has been done by physically removing someone's fingers (as was the case when a Mercedes with fingerprint recognition was stolen after the thieves also stole the owner's fingers) and fingerprint scanners on mobile devices have been found to be hackable.

 
So what if your passwords were not physical but instead a unique signal sent out by your brain? A new study, 'Brainprint', by researchers at the University of Binghamton, suggests that brainwaves could be used as passwords. The study was able to get a computer to identify users based on how their brain reacted to reading and recognizing a list of acronyms such as FBI or DVD. Each user's brain reacted differently to the extent that the computer was able to verify an identity with 94% accuracy.
 
According to Sarah Laszlo, assistant professor of psychology and linguistics at Binghamton University and co-author of the study, brain biometrics are appealing because they are cancellable and cannot be stolen by malicious means the way a finger or retina can.
 
"If someone's fingerprint is stolen, that person can't just grow a new finger to replace the compromised fingerprint -- the fingerprint for that person is compromised forever," she said. "Fingerprints are 'non-cancellable.' Brainprints, on the other hand, are potentially canceallable. So, in the unlikely event that attackers were actually able to steal a brainprint from an authorized user, the authorized user could then 'reset' their brainprint."
 
Their research follows findings that users' choice of passwords were very weak. The top 4 passwords in 2014, for example, were '123456', 'password', '12345678' and 'qwerty'.