Seriously, this registers barely above a lie detector for me. They have to just guess my password and then, when they get it right, they'll record a different brainwave pattern? Sounds simple enough. Okay, my passwords typically consist of several words with some numbers thrown in. I wager we can go through 40 trials each minute for 16 hours each day. How many millions of years do you have?
This might be completely off, since the article is pretty vague, but it seems like a possibility to me.
These headsets use EEG technology to detect and acquire neuro-signals - brainwaves, and are already popular with gamers who simply "think" about their next move.
Really? This is a thing now?
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/feasibili...
They claim a 15-40% decrease in entropy over a pure brute force attack. The blip about 'already popular' isn't there. That said, there are gaming oriented neural interfaces on the market. An earlish one for example [1]. They're all basically just commoditized EEG machines. Would not say that they're 'popular with gamers', but they're out there.