Arbaugh Says His Neuralink Brain Implant Is Hackable via Bluetooth
Noland Arbaugh · Neuralink's First Patient Controls Computers With His Mind — With Noland Arbaugh · Dec 18, 2024 · at 56:07
Noland Arbaugh, the first human recipient of a Neuralink implant, responds to Alex Kantrowitz about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities of brain-computer interfaces.
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“The device, my device is hackable. You'd have to find some way in, like through a Bluetooth signal, and you would be able to maybe control my cursor on a screen to be able to hack my neuron spikes in the brain signals and maybe, like, decode that to see what I'm doing on a computer.”
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