walker 0 Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) Hi all It was bound to happen one day. Hackers at a seccurity confrence have demonstrated basic mind reading using commercial off the shelf hardware and their own program. With it they found out what bank people used where they lived etc. They did not go to the next step of obtaining peoples pin numbers. The system works by flashing up images then looking for a recognition signal in the brain waves. Getting some one to reveal thie pin number by showing a keypad and flashing up numbers would be the logical next step for a theif. One can imagine if brain interfaces become common that say porn and pirate game sites could be used to present the recognition images in order to steal peoples banking details and passwords. On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces Conference: USENIX Security Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford; Doug Davies, Mario Frank, and Daniele Perito, University of California, Berkeley; Tomas Ros, University of Geneva; Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley Brain computer interfaces (BCI) are becoming increasingly popular in the gaming and entertainment industries. Consumer-grade BCI devices are available for a few hundred dollars and are used in a variety of applications, such as video games, hands-free keyboards, or as an assistant in relaxation training. There are application stores similar to the ones used for smart phones, where application developers have access to an API to collect data from the BCI devices. The security risks involved in using consumer-grade BCI devices have never been studied and the impact of malicious software with access to the device is unexplored. We take a first step in studying the security implications of such devices and demonstrate that this upcoming technology could be turned against users to reveal their private and secret information. We use inexpensive electroencephalography (EEG) based BCI devices to test the feasibility of simple, yet effective, attacks. The captured EEG signal could reveal the user’s private informa- tion about, e.g., bank cards, PIN numbers, area of living, the knowledge of the known persons. This is the first attempt to study the security implications of consumer-grade BCI devices. We show that the entropy of the private information is decreased on the average by approximately 15 % - 40 % compared to random guessing attacks. Read more here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/feasibility-side-channel-attacks-brain-computer-interfaces |Follow the link to read the original abstract text in full and for the link to the research paper in pdf format, as well as videos and a podcast One can also imagine peoples secrets being taken after kidnapping or the police and seccurity services using this to read everyones minds. Well if you have not done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about, I believe is the phrase... Kind Regards walker Edited January 16, 2013 by walker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NoRailgunner 0 Posted January 16, 2013 How many neurons are in the brain and how many times they are sending/receiving signals? Can a EEG pick up chemical signals? How strong are the signals and interferences? Are those signals and the software 100% reliable? Is the human brain and how it really works fully discovered and analysed?? One thing are theories and studies the other thing sensational headlines and wild speculations/conspiracy stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
W0lle 1052 Posted January 16, 2013 Alright than this is it. I never leave the house anymore without my tinfoil hat. And I better have a spare one with me, just in case. ^_^ Really walker, you should go back and do stuff for the game like in the old days instead hanging around at all these conspiracy sites all day. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
walker 0 Posted January 16, 2013 (edited) Hi all In Reply to Wolle, and with respect: it is not a conspiracy site it is a computer security conference. The story is interesting science from a scientific research paper with social implications. I have highlighted those implications both because they are serious and worthy of intelectual debate and in order to draw people in to looking at the research. The way you make stuff that is interesting in the Game is by perusing the cutting edge of science and looking at the limits of the game then seeing how those cutting edge ideas can be applied to the game, so as to overcome its limits or highlight its capabilities. Why else do you think BIS used to encourage intelectual debate? It is the people who wander round the places that are on the edge who create things and come up with new ideas. When BIS stops doing that, it looses those people. Whether they be the ones who post on the subjects or those who read the threads, that they find interesting. Kind Regards walker Edited January 16, 2013 by walker clarrity, grammar and spelling Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
