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Brain Hacking? The Future of identity Theft.

Posted by gtally • 7/12/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: brain hacking

Is this even possible?

www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/10/mind.hacking/index.html

What do you think? Could we all be high tech zombies in the future? If feasible, it seems a bit worse than credit card theft or stealing someone's social security number.

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7/12/09

greencurmudgeon

This is an advertisement telling us not to plug your head into anything. If one needed such a reminder.

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1. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  I've got to quit sticking my noggin into my toaster, then.
7/12/09

Stillthinking

I have just heard about people walking around in the street with these devices that can read the magnetic strip on your cards THROUGH YOUR WALLET. Same thing with your drivers license and passport. In other words, now everyone is going to have to start carrying around lead lined wallets that block scanning.

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1. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  So I guess we'll have to eat lead paint to block out the brain hackers.
2. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  I think aluminum foil hats should do the trick.
3. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  ha ha, excellent
4. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  I'm already wearing mine. Glenn Beck told me to do it.
7/12/09

Agit8r

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1. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  Wrong thread, Agit, wrong thread.
7/12/09

Agit8r

As long as this technology is available when my daughters bring home boyfriends

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7/12/09

dbowles1017

We are all going to be cyborgs eventually. So we will have to worry about more than just our identity being hacked.

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1. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  then they can unfreeze Ted Williams head
2. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  The cyborg revolution will give a whole new meeting to a person's "junk."
3. 7/12/09
  
  dbowles1017
  
  agi-I don't think so
  
  gtally- Does that mean no more enzyte commercials?
4. 7/12/09
  
  trailofpen
  
  Ted Williams head is one expensive ice cube. I wish I would have come up with that scam.
5. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  DB: those sorts of commercials will be handled by Mr. Goodwrench.
6. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Hmmm, cyborgs always end up with the evil sub-progamming or secondary protocol. This is bad news.
  
  If you are interested in Cryonics, check out the episode of This American Life (thislife.org) called "mistakes were made" about the first people to be cryogenicly frozen.
  
  It is such a huge scam and this episode will make your blood boil. I found it absolutely haunting.
7. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  then E.D. could be a SHOCKING experience
8. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Actually, a cyborg "member" could have it's benefits. A button for vibrate mode?
9. 7/12/09
  
  dbowles1017
  
  Except for the womens parts will also be robotic.
10. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  That specific chassis upgrade will be handled by Black and Decker.
11. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Girl parts wouldn't be robotic. What would be the point? WE don't have anything to "get up and going" in order to make the act possible.
12. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  or EZ Wrench
13. 7/12/09
  
  dbowles1017
  
  Good point. Maybe people are just obsessed with robots?
14. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  Sorry, ST. That robotic function will be contracted out to Pap Boys Body Parts.
15. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  No need for robotics, you just need one of these.
  
  www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/29/pneumatic_judge/
16. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  @DB
  
  isn't your lamp similarly equipped
17. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  ST: Now THAT's multitasking!
18. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  God bless Google. How else can you enter two terms in a search box like "penis" and "pneumatic pump" and end up with a news story about a judge in the UK?
19. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  brings new meaning to "Come to order"
20. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  The judge is from Oklahoma. And from the sound of it, he's from the panhandle.
21. 7/12/09
  
  Stillthinking
  
  Before the internet, how did people find random anecdotes to joke about?
22. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  News of the Weird.
23. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  so, he liked to pound his gavel, what's the big deal?
24. 7/12/09
  
  dbowles1017
  
  Similar yes. It's a pretty advanced model.
25. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  What was the old "Laugh In" line?
26. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  there is a judge here in spokane co. who has porn all over his bathroom.
27. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  Public or private bathroom?
28. 7/12/09
  
  Agit8r
  
  Judges chambers restroom. i only know cause I used to clean it. It also smelled like a mixture of B.O. and an ashtray
7/12/09

Agit8r

Imagine what the Ministry of Love could do with this (O.O)

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7/12/09

harveyavatar

And of course, if this were possible (only zipped through the article), authoritative entities could never be guilty of this type of scheme. Authoritative entities are always pure and benevolent.

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1. 7/12/09
  
  gtally
  
  Wow. All the paranoiac's conspiracy theories would suddenly come true! In the future, this could also be a very scary new front in warfare. Talk about "winning the hearts and minds of the people!"
2. 7/12/09
  
  harveyavatar
  
  To think some may take pranksters like Jose Delgado seriously!
  
  "The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain."
  Dr José Delgado,
  Director of Neuropsychiatry
  Yale University Medical School Congressional Record,
  No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974
  
  www.wireheading.com/jose-delgado.html
7/12/09

harveyavatar

hmmmm, didn't think Delgado was still alive

The forgotten era of the brain
John Horgan
Scientific American

www.wireheading.com/delgado/brainchips.pdf

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