Posted on 11/01/2018 3:23:13 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Brain implants used to treat Parkinson's disease could be hacked by cyber attackers and used to control people, scientists have claimed.
A report by the Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group and cyber security company Kaspersky claims that people's memories could be exploited by hackers and has called on cyber security companies, manufacturers and healthcare companies to develop new technology to stop them.
Academics have previously warned that brain implants could prevent patients from "speaking or moving, cause irreversible damage to their brain, or even worse, be life-threatening". They claimed that hackers could overload or disable the system, and could damage people's brains.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Well ok.
But what happens to the people with Parkinson’s disease that don’t have the implant.
....and the vision that was planted in my brain still remains within the sound of silence...
Sounds like McLame might have had the remote to Lindsey Graham’s brain implant.
Kaspersky claims that people’s memories could be exploited by hackers ...
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An absurd hysterical claim printed without analysis by a so-called technology writer. It is a typical example of not just the shallowness of the MSM, but the incredible ignorance compounded by sensationalism.
mclame - was as useful to the dems dead as he was when alive.
Just wait until they start hearing voices to mail bombs and shoot up places of worship.
Sounds like the movie The Manchurian Candidate.
I believe their talking about DBS (deep brain stimulation). Medtronics makes such a device. My wife has one... She would have been dead 15 years ago without it.
I believe their talking about DBS (deep brain stimulation). Medtronics makes such a device. My wife has one... She would have been dead 15 years ago without it.
Useful tool for creating more Democrat voters. We must keep this technology secure!
Mr. Clean sounds like he’s got an implant instead of a brain!
That there's a good one!
Just read that the founder of Medtronics passed away.
He was the first of the pacemakers too, right?
MKUltra could be completely obsolete. The next gen way to get a mass shooting!
I think if a Parkinson’s patient has an implant, having it hacked and being forced to make a pina colada for someone is the least of their worries...
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