Reply to post: Re: Bring on the stupid

Open-heart nerdery: Boffins suggest identifying and logging in people using ECGs

TechBearMike

Re: Bring on the stupid

Registered nurse with a lot of telemetry experience here: I agree with some of the other comments. NO ONE'S ECG is consistent enough to use as any kind of login or a password. The only perfectly consistent ECGs one ever encounters are in the lifesaving and telemetry classes, where the ECG is computer-generated. The heart is not a mechanical device, churning out identical beat after beat after beat, at least not in humans. It tries, but it's not a looping sampler. ;-)

This is one of the nuttiest ideas I've ever heard of for using medical info. Someone missed the critical thinking course on this one.

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