Jul 132009
Computer engineers are warning that neural interfaces, like the kind that will eventually control wheelchairs and computers, could be vulnerable to malicious hacks in the future. Great. So a few years from now, I shouldn’t be surprised when some geek hired by the Russian mafia hijacks my neural chip to download credit card numbers. This is why I’m going to demand that my chip run on Linux. The last thing I want is to be turned into a living spambot because Microsoft couldn’t be bothered to patch a Windows vulnerability.
