
Scientists Successfully ‘Hack’ Brain To Obtain Private Data: Are You Worried?
Heisenberg
2012/08/27 19:00:00
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SEATTLE.CBSLOCAL.COM reports:
It sounds like something out of the movie “Johnny Mnemonic,” but scientists have successfully been able to "hack" a brain with a device that's easily available on the open market.

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Yes+12This is disturbing if true as it will be possible to extract private information from people in custody.























Want to watch something very old (2007) The Illuminati insider tells all about this supposed 'new tech'. It's really actually fascinating!
by declaring another executive order..
As a part of my psychology/neurology course, I went to visit this very exclusive university of neuroscience, that yearly conducts some very interesting research into the brain and technology to treat disorders and such.
While I was there I talked to this professor who had designed his own lie detector which he claimed to be accurate over 95% of the time while in testing, I was there with some class friends and he asked us if we were interesting in seeing it in action. Then we were all told some various pieces of information and plugged into the machine, while in the machine every single time someone told a lie or was near telling a lie or even heard a word which reminded them of the lie, the results clearly showed it. Even the ones that looked very calm and didn't show any signs of nervousness or any specific emotion were caught by the machine.
I've seen a few lie detectors before but that one really topped them.
The "mind reading" part has to be trained of course, much like speech recognition software, since it doesn't really read thoughts but detect EEG patterns. You have to train the driver software to interpret your EEG patterns and translate them into commands.
Here's a youTube video that shows the device in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A review by a gaming magazine: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/0...
And the company's official website: http://www.emotiv.com/index.php
What the researchers did was to display images and numbers to test candidates and measure their emotional reaction using the Epoc. They didn't exactly read their minds, but they were able to determine if photos of bank buildings and certain number combinations had a special meaning to the test participants and were likely stored in their memory.
The "mind reading" part has to be trained of course, much like speech recognition software, since it doesn't really read thoughts but detect EEG patterns. You have to train the driver software to interpret your EEG patterns and translate them into commands.
Here's a youTube video that shows the device in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A review by a gaming magazine: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/0...
And the company's official website: http://www.emotiv.com/index.php
What the researchers did was to display images and numbers to test candidates and measure their emotional reaction using the Epoc. They didn't exactly read their minds, but they were able to determine if photos of bank buildings and certain number combinations had a special meaning to the test participants and were likely stored in their memory.
This is just one that actually works, but the concept is nothing different to what we've been peddling for decades already.
Some people are so myopic in their thinking. And that goes for the two thumbs up.