"The project, “Brain Hacking: Assessing Psychological and Computational Vulnerabilities in Brain-based Biometrics,” will research the security vulnerabilities of brainprint biometrics and, more specifically, assess the strengths and weaknesses of brain biometrics... “Content of the work will allow us to strengthen our understanding of the unique cognitive and psychological secret of the human brain, and apply this new knowledge into increasingly vulnerable cyberspace... The funding follows up on a 2014 NSF grant of approximately $500,000 that the team also shared with Buffalo for a project titled “Brain Password: Exploring A Psychophysiological Approach for Secure User Authentication.” The project investigated a new psychophysiological approach for identifying individuals by measuring their brain’s response to different stimuli, which is called a “brainprint.” Source: http://www.biometricupdate.com/201611/researchers-awarded-grant-to-continue-investigations-into-brain-biometrics-technology