{"id":982,"date":"2009-09-01T22:23:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=982"},"modified":"2009-09-02T01:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T20:11:45","slug":"bio-computers-the-downsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/bio-computers-the-downsides\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio-computers &#8211; The downsides."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was watching Eureka (Its a TV show, about this town with brilliant scientists) and they had an episode a little while ago where an organic computer got infected with a virus and got transmitted to a person when they used it. <\/p>\n<p>This made me think, this can really happen once organic computers start becoming commonplace. After all human beings are pretty much an organic computer with a pretty face. So it would become possible to send an email attachment to a target group (lets say an enemy country) and infect their bio-computers. Then the virus would copy itself over to the human operator and set itself up as a background process in the human mind (There is more than enough processing power in the human brain for this) and once its set up it could monitor all actions\/thoughts etc and keep a log of everything that person does, this data would then be sent back to the creator of the worm\/virus to be used as seen fit by them.<\/p>\n<p>The virus could even take over the human and make them do stuff that they wouldn&#8217;t normally do (like treason, or espionage) and I don&#8217;t think there is an easy way we could detect something like this and prevent it from happening. It reminds me of a novel I read a couple of years ago where humans had chips implanted in their heads to allow them to process\/store data and one of the character&#8217;s chip got hijacked and they could no longer control their actions. Now the same thing will be possible without any extra hardware implanted in the target.<\/p>\n<p>I guess to counteract this we would have to have an anti-virus program for the human mind: &#8220;Scan your brain for virus&#8217;s and trojans today&#8221;. Before any secret meetings all participents would have to have their brains scanned. <\/p>\n<p>To make things scarier governments could release a worm that let them keep an eye on their subjects and stop any activity they don&#8217;t like before it got far. Think &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; in your head&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Makes you <del>think<\/del> scared doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was watching Eureka (Its a TV show, about this town with brilliant scientists) and they had an episode a little while ago where an organic computer got infected with a virus and got transmitted to a person when they used it. This made me think, this can really happen once organic computers start becoming commonplace. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-related","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}