In recent years, security passcodes have only been in the form of combined letters and alpha numeric, in order to keep personal information and other important accounts secured online. Then came the finger-printing process that made security passcodes even tighter and harder to break.

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Recently, according to ScienceRecorder, the University of Binghamton recently concluded that the human brain has a unique way of reacting to certain words or acronyms that deliver "brainprint" which can simultaneously indicate the connection of a passcode to an individual. Sarah Laszlo, the study's co-author, compared how brain waves differ from finger prints, stating that brain waves have the tendency to immediately reset passwords at any given time, whereas fingerprints, once they are acquired by someone else, will be available forever for easy access.

A similar study might backup this theory from TechNewsWorld's story in 2013, wherein, Jon Chuang of UC Berkeley introduced the team's discovery at the 17^th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security.

In their research, the team asked several participants to join their experimental research by performing simple but organized task of doing basic actions, such as breathing, imagining and hearing. The data retrieved from the brain's activity is then compared to the security code's ability to sync with the brain. However, the study, which showed great potential to an even more secured online data, is not seen to be applicable to low security profiles, but rather pushed to be generated and applied to a much higher security locations such as government and tactical agencies.

In a statement made by Zhanpeng Jin, he said, "We tend to see the application of this system as being more along the lines of high - security, physical locations, like the Pentagon or Airforce laboratories, where there aren't that many users that are authorized to enter." Nevertheless, the idea of using this kind of securing data online on simple sites, such as social media and email accounts, is not totally dismissed.

The NeuroSky Mindset, a Bluetooth gadget, with the help of the brain's ability to recognize codes has made the security authentication using brain waves possible, and might be the next step in securing data online.

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