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This is an awfully contrived title for an article that could be summarized as "people can find out whether or not you recognize something shown to you by monitoring electrical activity along the scalp."
missing the point. This is huge. Maybe not in the way presented in the article, but nonetheless...
In what world would the victim not become suspicious?
(I appreciate things may change in the future, and if brain control headsets become common then a malware model (ad popups, for example) could provide a plausible vector for this attack.)
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Don't most people have a 4 digit pin? But in any case showing pins that way wouldn't work anyway - most people have a muscle memory for their pins, but would not recognize them when written down.
I recently got a new card and remembered the PIN spatially. After a few times of typing it in I realised that, though I was typing the digits of the new PIN, I was subvocalising the digits of my old PIN. It was a really odd sensation. Having said that, I would recognise both PINs as both a string of digits and as a spatial sequence... so that would probably just be another attack vector.
I trained myself to do this on purpose; subvocalising a different number. If I'm drugged out in a hospital bed and someone asks for my CC PIN, I want them to get an incorrect number.
It's cool that home BCI is so cheap now, I just wish they weren't trying to captilize so heavily on it.
This relies on an unsuspecting victim wearing a complicated nonstandard headset and then looking at a series of images / numbers slowly enough to register each of them consciously. In what world would the victim not become suspicious? (I appreciate things may change in the future, and if brain control headsets become common then a malware model (ad popups, for example) could provide a plausible vector for this attack…
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I recently got a new card and remembered the PIN spatially. After a few times of typing it in I realised that, though I was typing the digits of the new PIN, I was subvocalising the digits of my old PIN. It was a really odd sensation. Having said that, I would recognise both PINs as both a string of digits and as a spatial sequence... so that would probably just be another attack vector.
> I realised that, though I was typing the digits of the new PIN, I was subvocalising the digits of my old PIN. I trained myself to do this on purpose; subvocalising a different number. If I'm drugged out in a hospital bed and someone asks for my CC PIN, I want them to get an incorrect number.
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missing the point. This is huge. Maybe not in the way presented in the article, but nonetheless...
I absolutely agree that the technology has plenty of use cases and that the paper the article's written about presents an interesting new perspective on security. I was, however, annoyed that the article's title and opening paragraphs seem to take something relatively elementary (it's a feasibility study!) and frame it as some sort of Inception-esque mind-hacking situation. In other words: I agree about the value of…