{"id":8352,"date":"2015-09-25T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T19:00:27","slug":"dhs-wants-boeing-to-test-brain-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/dhs-wants-boeing-to-test-brain-chip\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS wants Boeing to Test Brain Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/brain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8353\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/brain.jpg\" alt=\"brain\" width=\"471\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security is funding a Boeing company to create a &#8220;brain\u00a0chip&#8221; for its self-destructing Black smartphone that could be adapted for any device, DHS officials say.<\/p>\n<p>The technology powering the devices\u00a0potentially could identify the user\u2019s walking style, for example. Officials would be alerted if the gait does not match the authorized user\u2019s walk \u2013 a red flag the phone might have fallen into the wrong hands, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;secret sauce&#8221; of the mobile device is a so-called neuromorphic computer chip that simulates human learning, Vincent Sritapan, the program manager for DHS&#8217; mobile device security program,\u00a0told <em>Nextgov<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gait recognition &#8212; driven by the phone&#8217;s accelerometer, GPS and the chip &#8212; is\u00a0but one of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/utils\/view?id=4fd34ebd16db27594265af50ecff186a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many kinds of continuous ID verification<\/a>\u00a0intended to\u00a0tighten access controls on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u00a0and HRL Laboratories, a software firm jointly owned by Boeing and General Motors, are partnering under a DHS project worth $2.2 million over 2.5\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/cybersecurity\/2015\/09\/dhs-wants-boeing-test-brain-chip-firms-self-destructing-black-spyphone\/121697\/\">NextGov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security is funding a Boeing company to create a &#8220;brain\u00a0chip&#8221; for its self-destructing Black smartphone that could be adapted for any device, DHS officials say. The technology powering the devices\u00a0potentially could identify the user\u2019s walking style, for example. Officials would be alerted if the gait does not match the authorized user\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,74,883,65],"tags":[2287,2288,2289,1862,2290,2291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}