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Imagine you're scrolling through your memories like an Instagram feed. Watching the favorite moments of life in detail or bringing back memories of loved ones.
Now imagine an anarchic future where hackers hijack your memories and threaten to delete them if you don't pay.
It may sound like a far-fetched story, but such situations can happen faster than you imagine.
If the brain is opened and seen
Advances in neurotechnology have already brought us closer to the possibility of enhancing our memory. And maybe in a few decades we'll be able to organize or interpret or rewrite memories as our own.
Vigorous use of this technology for brain reconstruction may become commonplace for brain surgeons.
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is used for some problems in about 1.5 million people around the world. These range from Parkinson's to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Such methods of healing can also be used to control diabetes or obesity.
Such technologies are being tested for the treatment of various mental disorders such as depression, dementia or Tourette syndrome.
And while these methods are still in their infancy, researchers are trying to figure out how to restore memory after trauma.
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a program to try to restore memory after traumatic brain injury in soldiers.
Mental superpowers
Researcher Laurie Pycroft of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at the University of Oxford points to some future timeframes. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if something like commercial memory restoration happens in the next ten years," he says.
Accordingly, within the next 20 years technology may provide facilities to capture the brain signals that create memories.
Mr. Pycroft.
But if this regulation falls into the wrong hands, the consequences can be dire, says Laurie Pycroft.
Imagine that a hacker learned the formula for a Parkinson's patient's neurostimulator and made it his own. He can then influence the thinking and behavior of the patient or even paralyze him.
A hacker can demand money through the dark web, and if he doesn't get it, he can threaten to delete all memories or create new memories.
In 2012, a group of researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley, monitored people's brainwaves from a popular gaming headset and extracted information such as bank card PIN numbers.
Control your past
"Brainjacking and memory manipulation can pose a variety of security challenges," said Dmitry Galov, a researcher at cybersecurity company Kaspersky.
Kaspersky and the University of Oxford worked together on what could be future technological risks.
"The Memory Market: A Future Where Cyber Security Risks Control Your Past" was the title of the joint working report.
That said, it would not be surprising if a future hero could try to rewrite its history by tampering with the nation's memory.
Unauthorized access
Hacking medical devices that are connected to the internet isn't the story at all.
In 2017, US authorities recalled 465,000 pacemakers due to cybersecurity privacy risks.
According to the country's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), unscrupulous individuals could have increased the risk of death by controlling the device to change the heart rate or control the battery of the pacemaker.
Although there have been no incidents of service, the FDA says that medical devices are increasingly connected via the Internet to hospital databases or other medical devices or smartphones. And with this the risk of cyber crime is increasing.
This is a problem for many medical devices, and Kaspersky believes that in the future, many more devices will be connected and controlled remotely. A doctor will be called only in an emergency.
Cyber defense
Fortunately, with awareness of cyber security, medical devices are being designed and planned in such a way as to minimize the risk.
But Mr. The most important aspect, according to Galov, is to educate patients and healthcare professionals so that they can take precautions. Such as setting strong passwords.
But the real problem is that it is not possible to ask a doctor to become an expert in cyber security.
Mr. According to Pycroft, the field of brain rehabilitation in the future may be more complex and the range of risks wider. Unless precautions are taken now.
If first-generation replacement solutions are not developed, second- and third-generation replacements will remain insecure and attackers will take advantage, according to researcher Pycraft.
