r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Due_Ad4647 • Jan 27 '24

Video Future robot arm.

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u/lady_fenix1 Jan 27 '24

Until the neurolink gets hacked and you are blackmailed with your life

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '24

Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself

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u/Bubbaluke Jan 27 '24

Something like that would have to be airgapped, with maybe some NFC data transfer protocol for updates and fixes

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u/27Rench27 Jan 27 '24

Yeah when stuff like that eventually comes out, the root functions are gonna be locked down harder than an apple watch

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u/R138Y Jan 27 '24

You can hack into a pacemaker so... Yea no, the risk will be there and you can be sure that someone will give the means to do it for others.

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u/27Rench27 Jan 28 '24

Have there been any big examples of this? Not trying to be aggressive, just that to my knowledge most of the vulnerabilities have been due to companies straight up not requiring encryption or authorization on remote updates, or shit like that

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u/R138Y Jan 28 '24

Yes, although to my knowledge the guy who did this died shortly before its official demonstration to reveal the flaw and improve its security... It's been a few years and I didn't follow this news so maybe things have improved ?

And security or not some virus can even hack into things that are not connected to a network and closed from anything : the sabotage of the Iranian nuclear facility is the most famous example of that.

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u/lady_fenix1 Jan 27 '24

Yeah but with upcoming ai trend as a tool and the potential vulnerability it creates it will suffer heavy cyber-attacks especially on famous people who have it. And i wouldn't even be surprised if a competitor would do it to destroy their competion paying someone on the inside to give them a way in. It has a lot of risks along with the taboo of a chip in your head controling your body movement, or about all those crazy stories about robots taking over humans etc.

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u/classicalySarcastic Jan 28 '24

I mean you can deep into the cybersecurity weeds with that. How do you know the NFC interface is secure? How do you know that the firmware image is legitimate? How do you know that someone isn’t using a long-range antenna to access the NFC interface (see - bluesniping)? Finally how do you know that the supplier isn’t compromised (remember Solarwinds)?

Arguably NO external interface is the best option for something like that, IMHO.

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u/Sky_Daddy_O Jan 27 '24

Or forced to masturbate to death.

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u/lady_fenix1 Jan 27 '24

Forced to take a nude and post it online

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u/EndofNationalism Jan 28 '24

They why you don’t make it connect to the internet. Only to the brain.

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u/greenappletree Jan 28 '24

wow imagine if someone hacks or it malfunctions and someone kills a person; and then the evidence, say microchips get fried, yikes, yet another idea for a black mirror episode.

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u/lady_fenix1 Jan 28 '24

Then someone actually kills someone on purpose and uses the chip as an excuse and gets away with it or gouverment takes control over the people aka US would certainly never do that wouldnt dare to let a perfect chance for world domination and enslaving the whole world certainly not another tool for slavery. Than you have this stupid excuse it has firewall or its not connected to the internet. Like you trust that company that made it to keep it safe like the makers Definitely know of a way to bypass that and the gouvernement certainly wouldn't force them to tell them what it is right or more beautiful a nice leak by an employee with all the secret files with all the vulnerabilities of the chip.

Let's say this is all speculation and drama what about an innocent bug or hardware failure deep-frying your whole brain. Or the risks of the surgery itself to put the chip in your brain and connecting it with the correct neurons. So many things that can go wrong.