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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02589-5
14•gnabgib•1d ago

Comments

LorenDB•6h ago
Is there any way to encrypt your brain's traffic and then handshake a decryption key to the implant to ensure that accidental activations merely result in garbage output?
bitwize•6h ago
The drawback to that is, if you lose the key you have to hack your own brain, then loop it through Jones.
neonate•6h ago
https://archive.md/8PBtz
Retr0id•6h ago
I wonder what happens if you tell the user not to think of their password.
petethomas•5h ago
I think that is kinda what Tim Robbins does in the opening scenes of Code46 i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaVXASxNrq4#t=7m35s
mrandish•5h ago
Having just gone through it today, I'm imagining getting this from my shiny new neural interface:

"Due to unusual account activity, you must change your password. Please enter 12 characters with at least three upper case and four lowercase letters, punctuation and two UTF-16 and one unprintable ANSI character."

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A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02589-5
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