Hacking the mind: 3 new brain hacks expose new realm of security & privacy risks

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Brain hacking is a hot subject right now and has moved from science fiction into reality. At the Usenix Security Symposium, one mind hack looked to create better security and an “unbreakable crypto” system; another brain hack focused on threats to privacy by extracting secrets with brain computer interfaces. Yet other scientists have created a helmet  to make an Inception-like world in which reality can be manipulated.

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