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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Are We Gonna Have to Do a Brain Scanning When We Check in Through Security at an Airport Someday?

I write about the increasing use of biometrics and the battle for your brain and especially functional biometrics so it just turns out that you know passwords as most people understand are not particularly secure and they're not a great way. I have a different password for basically every single site that I have and so I never know what my passport is and I'm like resetting them on a daily basis to avoid security problems. You can unlock your iPhone with your face or with your thumb andfunctional biometrics that is how you like how you move your fingers right across the screen or the patterns that you engage in functionally are better biometrics for security than just static ones like a face

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