Log On To Your Computer By Laughing At It

pshanks writes "New Scientist reports that Scientists at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, are using laughter recognition software to track and automatically log staff onto the computer nearest to them as they physically move around a networked building."

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Security

[MarkusQ]

I was wondering about the security implications of this until I read that:

the laughter- recognition software is rather crude and cannot accurately distinguish between different people.

So now it's not the security implications I'm wondering about.

-- MarkusQ