Would you want anyone besides yourself having authorized access to your sensory bus? Banks' Culture novels touch on similar topics. In Excession, a Culture

Would you want anyone besides yourself having authorized access to your sensory bus? Banks' Culture novels touch on similar topics. In Excession, a Culture warship comments how the brain-computer interface (in-universe called a "neural lace") is the most effective torture device ever devised. And in Surface Detail, a firefight turns on the fact that Culture warships write their own completely-customized operating systems, with this heterogeneity making hacking attempts more difficult and consequently less successful.