This is some scary stuff. Don’t think of your password! D’oh! Brain Hackers Pluck Your Private Data A team of researchers from the University of Oxford in Geneva and the University of California in Berkeley just showed how easy it is to hack a human brain and pluck things such as bank details from your head. They did so using an off-the-shelf Emotiv brain-computer interface that only cost a few hundred dollars. Their experiments made it easier to calculate their address or bank account numbers. protect your thoughts… Sad Keanu thinks this reminds him of something.

This is some scary stuff.

Don’t think of your password! D’oh!

Brain Hackers Pluck Your Private Data

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford in Geneva and the University of California in Berkeley just showed how easy it is to hack a human brain and pluck things such as bank details from your head. They did so using an off-the-shelf Emotiv brain-computer interface that only cost a few hundred dollars.

Their experiments made it easier to calculate their address or bank account numbers.

protect your thoughts…

Sad Keanu thinks this reminds him of something.

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    I dunno about mindhacking, but the lady makes a great ref. o 3o
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    That’s crazy scary! :/
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    Reminds him of clock work orange!
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    This is why I’m fucking wary of neural interfaces, even though I’m a techie cyberpunk nerd. I don’t want to be literally...
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    You can get a rig like that for a few hundred bucks? I think I just found a new gadget to lust after… >_< Back on topic,...
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