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What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

Caute_cautim — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:36:18 GMT

Hi All

https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/should-you-connect-your-brain-to-the-internet.html

What would you do, if you found out your GP had attached your brain to the internet?

Regards

Caute_cautim

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

JKWiniger — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 21:30:28 GMT

I for one see many positive possibilities for things like this. Sadly people seem to find ways to abuse things for their own personal gains. But if something like this could allow communication for someone who otherwise cannot I feel it would be helpful. I see this as a step in a good direction but it will be some time before it's ready for any kind of main stream use. What I am waiting for is further improvements in the Apple Watch. I expect at some point the watch to be able to actively monitor blood sugar, O2 levels, heart rate and be able to actively detect things that we are otherwise unable to see. What if eating an apple cause a weird spike where to us we just don't feel that great, but we never connect that apple to the problem. If we have an active system that can monitor and connect the dots I think it could change the quality of life just as what s mentioned in the article.

John-

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

Caute_cautim — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 21:45:14 GMT

HI John

I myself can see the benefits, but given the current circumstances - I personally have no trust that the average GP or Health Board are geared up to provide the level of trust, integrity and protection I would expect. I can see you point of view, in fact earlier this year, I walked into an outlet with some colleagues and had a coffee. I felt ill within five minutes of drinking that coffee in this case, so perhaps if the outlet had used old milk, I guess this would of signaled to someone - we have a food problem here and it could be investigated etc.

However, given the propensity of mankind to make a lot of money materially out of this, I personally do not hold a great deal of trust or hope that someone somewhere will not abuse it for their purposes or on behalf of others.

Regards

Caute_cautim

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

dcontesti — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:22:29 GMT

I am with you John, I have an inherent mistrust in governments and definitely would not want a GP to make such a decision.

I do however see that this could benefit a % of the population but wonder if it is far too soon to tell the real benefits from the made up stories.

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

JKWiniger — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 00:00:14 GMT

Yes, I think I am letting my optimism get the better of me. I guess I just need to at times to try to keep having a level of hope and faith. In reality to me far to many people are either just greedy or manipulative and do things for their or good. I am actually one of these silly people who enjoy when I can perform an act of random kindness, or help when I can expecting nothing in return. Idk..

John-

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

CISOScott — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:05:18 GMT

What OSI level would the brain interface at?

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

dcontesti — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:19:30 GMT

Somewhere between Physical and Data but am leaning to Physical

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

rslade — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:58:16 GMT

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Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

JKWiniger — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:42:17 GMT

@rslade new module for Metasploit... Borger... gets you right into all unpatched Borg and turns them into your very own botnet!

John-

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

JKWiniger — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:44:07 GMT

@dcontesti It all makes sense now, the people with the tinfoil hats were just early adopter of the tech and the hats where firewalls!

John-

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

dcontesti — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 18:46:20 GMT

@JKWiniger Okay you got me with that one, I will in future ensure that I am not taking a drink when I read your emails. (Image: water streaming from nose and Sound: huge Snort)

LOL

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

Caute_cautim — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 20:40:49 GMT

@CISOScott Well the brain is made of many neurons, so obviously it is a neural network, with electrical triggers being fired off, a bio chemical one. For one, the endocrine system uses chemical signaling (hormones, produced by glands) while the nervous system uses electrical signaling (neural impulses). The signal transmission of the nervous system is fast because neurons are interconnected, but the functions are more short-lived. So if you were hit by lightening or a Taser, it would have a devastating effect on the system.

http://sanctuaryweb.com/Portals/0/2010%20PDFs%20NEW/2010%20Bloom%20Computer%20metaphor.pdf

https://smist08.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/the-brains-operating-system/

https://crev.info/2018/01/windows-brains-operating-system/

Like a a modern automobile, I hope we are not plugged into a diagnostics plug for analysis purposes.

Regards

Caute_cautim

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

CISOScott — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:54:09 GMT

@Caute_cautim so will this be a new elective surgery in the future? You can pay to have an RG-45 port dangling from your head (or just go wi-fi, but password changes are a pain). So the movies are becoming reality? I think it was the movie Total Recall where they could just implant memories into your brain.

Someone once said life imitates art and I am seeing these art forms (books (1984) and movies (Total Recall) being assimilated into our lives......

Re: What would you do, if you found your brain was attached to the Internet?

JKWiniger — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:13:26 GMT

What would be very interesting is if your password into the device was dependent on performing certain movements that caused different areas of the brain to fire which would then be picked up by the implant and seen as the password. Or maybe even the password could just require thinking of different things in the right order to get different things firing to be seen and picked up in the brain.

John-