|
| vangelis wrote:
| No thank you.
| bruce343434 wrote:
| I'm skeptical but intrigued. A lot of what is put forth in this
| article just seems like 3 brainstorm sessions by middle
| management, written out and editorialized.
| rand846633 wrote:
| Can't wait to use this while flying on an airplane. This will
| basically make flying like teleportation, just that you also
| arrive freshly sleep at the destination.
| app4soft wrote:
| > _This will basically make flying like teleportation_
|
| And if airplane would be in crash it would be easy to switch
| OFF all on a board before plane crashed on ground.
| qzw wrote:
| Plus they can pack the passengers into little compartments as
| in _The 5th Element_ or Japanese capsule hotels.
| wyager wrote:
| I'm not putting anything in my body unless its entire codebase
| and hardware design are public and extensively formally verified.
| Current medical device standards are clearly insufficient and
| off-base as they allow for garbage like pacemakers with
| vulnerable Bluetooth stacks.
| xuhu wrote:
| Augustus Cole from that X-Files episode would like to disagree.
| slownews45 wrote:
| Fair enough.
|
| The VAST majority of users do not care, and many programmers
| (myself included) do not believe that formal verification is
| likely for many larger or more complex systems if they have a
| tech stack element somewhere in mix (probably not on the device
| itself but perhaps interfacing / programming it).
|
| We will see who wins in the market, the open source player with
| a public and extensive FORMAL verification (NOT EASY!) or the
| closed source player, first to market, sales reps going to Drs
| offices etc
| rdtwo wrote:
| More like a subscription model the less you pay the worse you're
| sleep
| Apocryphon wrote:
| The bit in Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_ where you can just
| regularly hypnotize someone (at least in the military) to fall
| asleep seems less invasive.
| thaufeki wrote:
| I_HATE_THE_ANTICHRIST.png
| scohesc wrote:
| I can't wait for the future of body modification and the reverse
| engineering/hacking that follows.
|
| Everyone and their dog gets one of these chips because they're so
| cheap, easy, and ubiquitous that you can walk right down to your
| doctor's office and have it installed same day, covered by your
| insurance!
|
| Then some black-hat hackers come by and pull a Captain Crunch and
| blast a specific frequency at the highest power possible and it
| immediately makes everyone with the chip go to sleep.
| qzw wrote:
| > the messages traveling to and from the hub will be encrypted,
| the user will have to somehow verify any command they give the
| hub, and the data will only be stored on the device itself and
| not in any kind of cloud. Most importantly, the implantable
| device couldn't be used without the armband: remove it and the
| implant would become useless.
|
| And also:
|
| > "should anything go wrong" the person wearing the device
| would "swallow a pill that would kill the cells inside the chip
| only, leaving the rest of their body unaffected."
|
| I wouldn't be the first person to sign up for this, but it
| looks like they at least did do some basic thinking about
| security.
| jcun4128 wrote:
| In comes me the anti-virus/hacking salesman
| yazaddaruvala wrote:
| My first thought for any implant: What's the power source?
|
| Or do I need to plug myself "in" every few days?
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