About Dream- This kind of security technology that sounds mysterious, is not the kind of virtual brain that everyone thinks that can only be used in dreams, but a novel technical means to enhance traditional identity verification or security protection performance such as dream state and brain wave activities when people sleep! Nowadays, not many people are worried about passwords being stolen and fingerprints being copied. This emerging technology wants to start with the most unique physiological and psychological characteristics of people – after all, everyone's dream mode and brain wave reaction are unique, much more difficult to crack than passwords, fingerprints, etc.! Of course, provide global procurement services for weak current intelligent products! This technology is still in its development stage, but many studies have shown that its potential in improving safety is quite exciting.
If you disassemble the key module, you have to say it carefully:
1. Brain wave signal acquisition and analysis module : This is the most basic part! You have to use a specially made wearable device that can be worn on the head. When a person wakes up and remembers the contents of the dream, or collects brain wave data during a specific sleep stage (such as the rapid eye movement period) – this data volume is very large, and various interference signals must be filtered out through complex algorithms and extracts characteristic values related to the dream!
2. Dream Key Information Extraction Module : If you collect the signal, you have to find a way to know what key information is happening in the dream! It is through methods similar to questionnaire and image-guided recollection, allowing users to report unique scenes and objects that appear in dreams under specific guidance, and convert these fragmented fragments into codes or templates that can be recognized by computers and saved.
3. Identity verification algorithm module : This involves advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning! The system will compare the dream feature templates stored by users with the brain waves and dream reports collected in real time during each verification – what is compared is not the superficial thing like the dream content itself, but the neural activity pattern hidden behind it and the unique subjective feature reaction of the individual.
4. Encryption and storage guarantee module : All collected are so private brain waves and dream data, so it must be encrypted with the highest level of encryption technology! Moreover, when storing, you must desensitize and separate the user's identity information to prevent these core data from being leaked or tampered with. Security is the first priority.
What pain points should be solved? The main ones are:
Traditional passwords are easily lost, forgotten, and easily guessed or brute-forced. Everyone has a deep understanding of this
Biometric features like fingerprints and human faces are convenient, but they are risky of being forged or stolen (such as using photos to deceive facial recognition), or even forced collection in unconscious states.
Hacker technology is updated too quickly, and new vulnerabilities can always be found to bypass existing protection, which is panic!
Let’s add some details in the Q&A format:
Q: With this Dream-, do you have to sleep and dream every time you verify it? That's not very troublesome
Answer: Of course, not every time you have to complete the "dream-dream test" process! Usually, traditional verification methods may be used. This technology is mostly used as a special verification method that is only activated when "ultimate insurance" or high-security operations (such as transferring a lot of money and modifying core account information). It does not require any trouble every time.
Q: If I always had nightmares during that period, or couldn’t remember what dreams I had, would it affect the verification success rate? Can't you open your own system?
Answer: This is a question that needs to be considered! The solution proposed by the research team is to either increase the fault tolerance rate of machine learning, allow dream characteristics to change within a certain range, and do not require that they are exactly the same every time; or to use brain wave characteristics that are not rapid eye movement as the auxiliary verification basis – do not rely on the content of the dream that can be remembered, so that the problem of "not remembering dreams" can be bypassed
From a personal point of view, Dream- technology does provide a very imaginative new direction for future security protection. It uses the most private and difficult parts of human subjective consciousness as security keys, which is theoretically much safer than any existing single verification method! Although the technology is not yet mature, it may face various practical problems such as user experience, data collection accuracy, ethical privacy disputes, etc. – but as brain science and artificial intelligence develop faster and faster, maybe in the past few years, we can really protect the most important information in our sleep, which is a technical field worth looking forward to.
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