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Hackers attacking your memories: science fiction or future threat?

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab and the University of Oxford Functional Neurosurgery Group have undertaken a practical and theoretical threat review of existing neurostimulators and their supporting infrastructure. They found one serious vulnerability and several worrying misconfigurations in an online management platform popular with surgical teams. Within five years, scientists expect to be able to electronically record the brain signals that build memories and then enhance or even rewrite them before putting them back into the brain. A decade from now, the first commercial memory boosting implants could appear on the market.”]

Source: https://securelist.com/hackers-attacking-your-memories/88285/

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