Comments on: Virus warning: Cyborgs at risk

Humans will upgrade their nervous systems with technology, a professor predicts--and then they'll be open to computer viruses.

[Smarterdanu]

Big Brother

A day when everyone have RFIDs in their body and there are computers everywhere that read them, the government could track your every move....is that possible?

[unknown unknown]

Looks like someone watch Ghost In The Shell one too many times. (no text)

<EOM>

[dejo]

Reboot your body?

Let's just hope these cybernetic implants are not Microsoft-
based! I can't imagine what would happen when you are forced
to reboot...

[PCCRomeo]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK

This is an odd story....lol

[CyberWoLfman]

Cybernetic implants and electronic enhancments.

Being able to access the Internet while running around town would certainly by nice, but I think I'd rather opt for a VRD (Virtual Retinal Display) system, where the images are displayed using low-powered lasers onto your eyes. Having such electronic systems hard-wired into your nervous system with no control over them or a way to shut them off would be lunacy. Even for me. ;-)

At the very least, if such things were to become the norm in the future, I'd be one of those asking for a way to change my IP address like those using dial-up accounts can do, just logging off, then back on with the ISP. The IP block won't change, of course, as they could stil tell which ISP you're using, but they'd have to search for you. And, if you can "stealth" your ports, so they won't know you're there unless you connect to them, all the better.

But, maybe this would be one of the first steps needed to get us to the point of having technology such as the learning machine in the movie "The Matrix", where we could learn how to fly a helicopter or use Kung Fu within a few seconds, simply by downloading the information / experiences into our brain.

However, I'd be worried about advertisers mis-using this technology. It won't be like with a Web browser, where you could simply go into your Options and select to block un-requested pop-ups as you can with Mozilla, or Mozilla Firefox, or turning off Javascript in Netscape, or for the new people still using Internet Explorer, setting your IE security settings to "high". More Internet help, here, if you want it: www.cyberwolfman.com/internet_help.htm

Then of course, there's the lack of privacy as it's almost a certainty that there will be ways to track you.

- CyberWoLfman