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I imagine a dystopian feature where ransomware hackers encrypt people’s brains and ask for ransom to unlock the contents. Anyway, this seems cool tho.
by blackhawkC17 2y ago
I imagine a dystopian feature where ransomware hackers encrypt people’s brains and ask for ransom to unlock the contents.
Anyway, this seems cool tho.
- bArray 2y agoIt'll be somehow worse. Your brain won't be encrypted, but your ability to communicate with the outside world will be. You will be fully locked-in until you send 100 BTC to an address. Seeing you have been hacked, they can reverse it with a surgical procedure, but unfortunately they can't get your consent. After seven months they turn off your brain interface due to missed payments and now you can communicate (badly), but the interest on your debt is such that you will perpetually be in financial hardship. You have a legal right to dispute the costs, but within 0.00000892 seconds GPT-42 decided you didn't have a case, and you have no right to take your complaint further. It's back to the lithium mines for you with your crippled legs - an accident resulting from a bug in an autonomous vehicle that damaged your spine. At least the accident got you a one-month free trial for the brain chip.
- nom 2y agoMore realistically: they'll just brick your expensive brain implant directly with a remote update, and cryptolock it. Try sending that back in for repair :D
- tempaccount420 2y agoWe can write safe, un-hackable software, when we have to. I doubt this will be an issue.