Are you ready to be cyborg

November 10, 2007
By Computer security

The experiments are in process to implant chips in humans. The man will become cyborg.
“Cyborg” is a science-fictional shorting of “cybernetic organism”. The idea is that, in the near future, we may have more and more artificial body parts – arms, legs, hearts, eyes – and digital computing and communication supplements. The logical conclusion is that one might become a brain in a wholly artificial body. And the step after that is to replace your meat brain by a computer brain.

New implant technology currently used to locate lost pets has been adapted for use in humans, allowing implant wearers to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-commerce transactions.

More recently, at the Baja Beach Club in Barcelona, Spain, customers began paying for drinks with the wave of their hand, having each received a microchip implant for ID and payment purposes. Chipped members are able to breeze past a “reader” that verifies their identity and links it to their current credit balance, and even automatically opens doors to exclusive areas of the club for them. They can then buy food and drinks with a wave of their hand and don’t need to worry about losing a credit card or wallet. This all is early stage of human chip implantation.

There are challenges in making a man ready for chip to be implanted in his body. I heard about a Japanese tv cartoon program in which a method was introduced to hack human body. Ghost hacking is a method of hacking into a cyborg body and accessing its brain in the hopes of manipulating the ghost. This happens to the garbage deliveryman in both versions of the story. Essentially he was ghost hacked and was living out a simulated experience, or “simex.” In living through a simex-which is defined as a software dream-the hacked cyborg carries out the embedded program rules of the hacker. The ghost hacked cyborg becomes a puppet of the hacker, just like your computer becomes a puppet of the virus that broke through your firewall.

In the real world this kind of hacking is not possible but still there are security concerns. At first the chip may introduced as identity of human and later on through research this technology can be improved  and turned a man to cyber man.

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2 Responses to “ Are you ready to be cyborg ”

  1. hanafi on November 11, 2007 at 10:19 am

    Science fiction sometimes can become reality like spaceship, handphone etc.
    http://www.hanafionline.com

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