Adversarial mind-reading with compromised brain-computer interfaces.
What does that mean, exactly? Well, imagine you buy one of those newfangled BCIs (Brain-Computer Interface) to gain a few extra percent on your frag count. Now imagine that you leave this thing attached and powered on while you browse the web. Now imagine that a website flashes a subliminal image when you load their page and taps into that BCI to figure out whether or not your brain recognizes this picture as familiar or not. BAM! Now they know the bank you use, the restaurants you like, or even whether or not you are likely a closet homosexual. I hear you saying, "What? That's a crazy idea! Websites aren't going to do that!" Well, that might be true...so far. But it's not much of a stretch, really. All it takes it to flash the wrong firmware update into your consumer-grade BCI.
It also means that interrogation techniques could advance, since they don't even need to ask you questions to find out whether or not you know someone (a victim, an accomplice, a lover), now they just have to flash the picture in with a bunch of other random faces and your brain will betray you whether you want it to or not.
Ah, the future. What other wonders will it bring?
--Patrick
What does that mean, exactly? Well, imagine you buy one of those newfangled BCIs (Brain-Computer Interface) to gain a few extra percent on your frag count. Now imagine that you leave this thing attached and powered on while you browse the web. Now imagine that a website flashes a subliminal image when you load their page and taps into that BCI to figure out whether or not your brain recognizes this picture as familiar or not. BAM! Now they know the bank you use, the restaurants you like, or even whether or not you are likely a closet homosexual. I hear you saying, "What? That's a crazy idea! Websites aren't going to do that!" Well, that might be true...so far. But it's not much of a stretch, really. All it takes it to flash the wrong firmware update into your consumer-grade BCI.
It also means that interrogation techniques could advance, since they don't even need to ask you questions to find out whether or not you know someone (a victim, an accomplice, a lover), now they just have to flash the picture in with a bunch of other random faces and your brain will betray you whether you want it to or not.
Ah, the future. What other wonders will it bring?
--Patrick
