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Topic1) Brain hi-jacking could become a reality soon,
warn researchers
A vulnerability of brain implants to cyber-security attacks could make "brainjacking" a reality, say researchers
By: IANS | Published:August 29, 2016 7:57 pm
A vulnerability of brain implants to cyber-security attacks could make “brainjacking”, which has been discussed in science fiction for decades, a reality, say researchers from the University of Oxford. Writing in The Conversation, an Australia-based non-profit media, Laurie Pycroft discussed brain implants as a new frontier of security threat.
The most common type of brain implant is the deep brain stimulation (DBS) system. It consists of implanted electrodes positioned deep inside the brain connected to wires running under the skin, which carry signals from an implanted stimulator.
The stimulator consists of a battery, a small processor, and a wireless communication antenna that allows doctors to programme it. In essence, it functions much like a cardiac pacemaker, with the main distinction being that it directly interfaces with the brain, Pycroft explained.
DBS is widely used to treat Parkinson’s disease, often with dramatic results, but it is also used to treat dystonia (muscle spasms), essential tremor and severe chronic pain.
Targeting different brain regions with different stimulation parameters gives neurosurgeons increasingly precise control over the human brain, allowing them to alleviate distressing symptoms.
However, this precise control of the brain, coupled with the wireless control of stimulators, also opens an opportunity for malicious attackers.
“In light of recent developments in information security, there is a reason to be concerned that medical implants are vulnerable to attack,” Pycroft and his colleagues wrote in a recent paper published in the journal World Neurosurgery.
Examples of possible attacks include altering stimulation settings so that patients with chronic pain are caused even greater pain than they would experience without stimulation.
Or a Parkinson’s patient could have their ability to move inhibited.
A sophisticated attacker could potentially even induce behavioural changes such as hypersexuality or pathological gambling, or even exert a limited form of control over the patient’s behaviour by stimulating parts of the brain involved with reward learning in order to reinforce certain actions.
Although these hacks would be difficult to achieve as they would require a high level of technological competence and the ability to monitor the victim, a sufficiently determined attacker could manage it, Pycroft said.
“Researchers, clinicians, manufacturers, and regulatory bodies should cooperate to minimize the risk posed by brainjacking,” the researchers wrote in the journal.
Article source : http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/brain-hi-jacking-could-become-a-reality-soon-warn-researchers-3002612/
<Questions>
Q1. Have you ever heard about the "brainjacking"?
Q2. Did you know that brain implant tech. was applied in our brain to treat some disease such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia (muscle spasms), essential tremor and severe chronic pain. If you have those diseases, in order to lessen your pain, would you apply this kinds of innovative medical implant tech. which could possibly cause cyber attacking to yourself ? Or will you take more conventional and safe but less effective way?
Q3. Have you ever faced any kinds of information security problem in reality or in cyber space? How did you deal with those tricky situations? Do you think we have any counter measures to treat those misdeed?
Q4. If someone try to manipulate your behavior by using this kinds of tech. how would you react to it? How to protect yourself from those people?
Q5. If you can develop your intellectual strength by those technologies, would you apply those tech. to yourself?
Topic2) 10 Signs Turning 30 Is Closer Than I Realize
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amber-hill/10-signs-turning-30-is-closer-than-i-realize_b_8882234.html
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of turning 27. Personally, I still feel like a hot, young babe. A very tired, jiggly hot, young babe who wears yoga pants on the reg. Regardless, I am definitely too youthful to be almost 30. Thirty is for old, boring people who watch the news and eat dinner at 4:00 p.m. I, being as buoyant and fresh as I am, do things like eat non-GMO cashew butter out of the jar and go on never-ending Netflix binges. I am clearly way too hip to be over the hill of my 20s.
Or so I thought.
Since my birthday, I have been faced with some eye-opening truths... turning 30 is closer than I realize. This whole youthful bit is turning into quite the facade... unfortunately. One afternoon, as I was alphabetizing our books, I was forced to accept reality. After I brewed some coffee and grabbed my fluffy fleece blanket, I curled up on my couch and really pondered my approaching old age.
Here are 10 signs turning 30 is closer than I realize.
1. I've started spending my time unwinding by pulling weeds in our flowerbeds. Like out in my front yard... on my hands and knees... pulling weeds... in plain view of my neighbors. #smh
2. If I am going to consume an alcoholic beverage, it'd better taste GOOD. This isn't a frat party -- I don't want to gag my drink down in hopes of being tipsy in under five minutes. I want to relax with a delicious red blend served in a wine glass, not a Solo cup.
3. I no longer buy pre-packaged meat products. When we want deli meat, hamburgers or seafood, I go straight to Ken the Butcher and request the ribeye five steaks down.
4. I just purchased my first eye cream. That's right... eye cream. Ain't nobody got time for dark circles and fine lines.
5. I worry over things like sunscreen, fragrance-free laundry detergent, and high-fructose corn syrup. I mean, seriously, why isn't that corn-starch-based sweetener banned yet??
6. I used to be saddened and question my coolness if I didn't have plans on Saturday night. But now I'm as giddy as a toddler on Christmas Eve if I get to be in my jammies by 8:00 p.m.
7. There is absolutely no way I can pull off saying words like "fleek" and "yolo." Don't even get me started on trying to nae nae. Can you say whiplash?
8. My new favorite place to shop is Costco. Who doesn't love free samples and buying 50 rolls of toilet paper for $12?
9. My idea of a "thrill" is when I pull off a flawless checkout at Target. I'm like Extreme Couponers, mom style. I've got multiple transactions, coupons, cartwheel, my REDcard, AND my credit card (gotta get those airline miles). All with a tired toddler and infant strapped to my chest.
10. For my birthday I ask for things like kitchen gadgets, house shoes, and new spandex.
Once I completed this fairly obvious list about how turning 30 is closer than I realize, I felt depressed. So, naturally, I was forced to open up a new bottle of Noble Vines and immediately delve into the next season of The Blacklist.
My dear friend, if you find yourself guilty of any of the above, then I'm afraid turning 30 may be closer than you realize.
If that's the case, I'll catch you at Costco -- I'll be the one standing next to the chicken salad samples.
Questions
1. How have your attitude and mindset changed as you grew old?
2. What do you think is the biggest difference between those in their 20s and 30s in terms of lifestyles?
3. How do you want to grow as a person?
Topic3) Uber for Breakups
You can now pay a stranger to end things with your significant other. Because of course you can.
The prices, it should be said, are quite reasonable.
For $10, you can buy a text sent to your significant other informing him or her of the cessation of your affection. For the same amount, you can buy an email version of that note. For slightly more—$20—you can buy, if you are feeling traditional or especially official about it, an actual letter announcing the breakup. Custom missives will run you a little more: $30 for a letter that features names, explanations, and other details that will help to drive home the facts that 1) this is over, and 2) this is not a joke.
It is, to be clear, totally not a joke. These breakup offerings are offered by the new service The Breakup Shop. Which is an actual thing. And which is exactly what it says it is:
The items for sale on the site, however, include not just writing-based notices. If you’re feeling like your text and/or email and/or letter might leave room for understandable and actually probably inevitable confusion on the part of their recipient, you can also hire a breakup phone call, placed at the time of your choosing. (It’ll cost you $29, with prices increasing for rush orders.)
That call will be made, at this early point in The Breakup Shop’s history, by one of The Breakup Shop’s two founders.
It will include select details, provided by the breaker-upper, of what the break-up-ee has done to be broken up with.
It will also include, at the end of the proceedings, an offer for the freshly dumped individual to visit The Breakup Shop’s online gift emporium, which includes such time-tested sadness solutions as a Blu-Ray of The Notebook ($25), a set of two 18-oz. wine glasses ($15), and a box of Chips Ahoy! Rainbow Cookies ($5).
We know all this because the Motherboard writer Emanuel Maiberg recently tested the service out on his girlfriend of five years, arranging for a breakup call that cited for its existence, among other deal-breaking flaws, her love of makeup and her distaste for helping out in the kitchen. (The call was, fortunately, an actual test: Maiberg warned her in advance that the call was coming, and the breakup was enacted for stunt purposes only.)
And: The results of the breakup call were just as awkward as even more awkward than you’d expect. The Breakup Caller paused at inopportune moments. He dutifully cited the reasons for the breakup, clearly reading from a list. He suggested, at the end, that the dumpee take solace in that online gift shop. The whole thing was terrible and horrible and haunting on pretty much every level imaginable.
The Breakup Shop may be efficient and, to a degree, even useful. But: Is it a system fit for humans?
So. Yes. Anyway. Here is the argument for the existence of a service like The Breakup Shop: Closure. The avoidance of the confusion and the anxiety that can come when an official breakup is skipped in favor of a drawn-out process of ghosting. MacKenzie, one of the founders of the service, in fact got the idea for The Breakup Shop when he was ghosted upon by a girl he was seeing casually: Rather than telling him that they were done, she simply cut off communication with him. And “the least you can do is break up with someone and give them that closure,” Evan, The Breakup Shop’s other founder, noted. Which is extremely true.
But, then, here are the arguments against a service like The Breakup Shop: Empathy. Human decency. The fact that your mom raised you so much better than this.
And the fact, too, that this is probably not the kind of thing we, as a society, want to do with our new technologies. Last week, in an essay for The Atlantic, Robin Sloan argued against the sometimes dehumanizing efficiencies that the app economy is bringing about. “We are alive,” he wrote, “at a time when huge systems—industrial, infrastructural—are being remade, and I think it’s our responsibility as we make choices both commercial and civic—it’s just a light responsibility, don’t stress—to extrapolate forward, and ask ourselves: Is this a system I want to live inside? Is this a system fit for humans?”
The Breakup Shop may be efficient and, to a degree, even useful. But: Is it a system fit for humans?
It’s revealing that the cofounders of The Breakup Shop—MacKenzie and Evan, who are brothers, based in Canada—offer many, many justifications for their service. It’s even more revealing, though, that they asked Maiberg not to share their full names with his readers. They wanted, they explained—though, really, no explanation was necessary—“to protect their identity.”
Questions
1. What do you think about this application “The Breakup Shop”? Do you think it is useful?
2. What do you think is the best way to inform your significant other of the cessation of your affection? Do you think it is okay to break up over text message or e-mail?
3. If you are an app developer, what kind of app do you want to make?