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Guest theSun

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i wouldn't say he is infected with the virus, moreso that he is infecting other synthetic computers with his implanted chip.

 

just a little semantics. the chip isn't interfacing at all with this guys body.

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Braintree Grand Master

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This made me chuckle:

 

Professor Rafael Capurro of the Steinbeis-Transfer-Institute of Information Ethics in Germany told BBC News that the research was "interesting".
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theSun, as usual, you're missing the point. These chips can be infected at distance:

 

"If someone can get online access to your implant, it could be serious," he said.

 

If these implants support important human functions such as

 

medical devices such as pacemakers and cochlear implants

 

or in a somewhat distant future

 

someone's memory or their IQ

 

which you may benefit from, that is, important body functions, then being able to infect these implants at distance is dangerous.

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Guest theSun

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since i miss the point so often i wish you could halp me out bro

 

i get that you can fuck up someones micro chip if you can communicate with it. this is basic shit. if i make my chip talk to yours i can hack into it and make it do whatever i want.

 

a pacemaker does interface with your body. in that respect, you could go an fuck up someone pacemaker with this doohickey, but is that really "infecting" someone with a computer virus? i'd say no.

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Guest theSun

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also if you want to network your pacemaker there is an obvious inherent danger at giving someone else control of it.

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goffer Grand Master

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quick question... is the chip interfacing at all with this guys body?

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I too was thinking about Snow Crash :braindance:

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a pacemaker does interface with your body. in that respect, you could go an fuck up someone pacemaker with this doohickey, but is that really "infecting" someone with a computer virus? i'd say no.

 

your semantic point was obvious, but it has no importance for the result. The result being that if someone infects your pacemaker, you can die.

Of course, a chip is not your body, but if it is inside your body and functions as a vital constituent (like an organ), then one can assume you are infected with a computer virus. Saying something like "noooo, it's the chip that is infected" won't do much difference.

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kaini Grand Master

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Where is our Hiro Protagonist when we need him?

 

as soon as i saw the thread title, i was like..... Snow Crash......

 

 

lol, yeah me too

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Guest theSun

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i don't think we're disagreeing, i'm just saying that this guy is basically doing an exercise in logic. not exactly cutting edge stuff until we actually start to see networked chips that control bodily functions. even then it's relatively easy to lock down shit that needs to be static and don't give everyone write access.

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Guest catacombus

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When I was little my grandma told me to be careful using the computer, because I could get a virus from it.

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