Cyborg Security
Cyborg Security
As we extend our technosocial selves online, our brains and extended delves become open to attack.
Cyborg security is the digital version of security for the physical self. Cyborg security is the security of the digital self, the extension of the self into online worlds.
One will join a network if they feel there is peace of mind available. ---
From: esteban <esteban@redscarf.com> To: Amber Case February 15, 2010 10:31:55 PM PST
Hey there, you don't know me. But I've chatted with Deborah Heath and a few other folks and they've led me to you. I've also seen you talk at Ignite portland I think.
I'm a security researcher working for Intel but that's really besides the point. I'm writing you to ask about some of your material concerning cyborgs and the trends for humans to modify themselves using technology. Next month I'm giving a talk at Shmoocon, a security conference in DC (http://www.shmoocon.org) about Cyborg information security. The gist of my talk will be a review of the information security threats and vulnerabilities for Cyborgs present and future. I'll be focusing on what new threats are possible against humans modified with technology. IE, What can a hacker attack and how. And Also taking a look at what defenses do we bring as humans to this area. IE, can we meditate our way out of a hack attack against our pacemaker or our can we use cognitive tricks to defend against attacks against our cyber eyes or neural implants.
It's all pretty interesting and fun topics to be looking at.
I've seen some of your work on cyborgs, but what I'm interested in from you is a framework for how you slice up the Cyborg world. What I mean by this is getting some better sense of how the realm of Human modification might be understood in terms of Implant type and Function. I'm currently looking at it this way: Implant types: Cosmetic, Physical, Sensory, and Cognitive vs Function: Restorative, Enhancement, and Augment. Where Restore means something like "make us whole again", Enhance means make a capability better, and Augment means Add a new capability. Does this make any sense and do you know of any attempts to categorize or build a framework around how we modify ourselves as humans?
-Esteban Gutierrez
Ps, I live here in Portland.
Hey there.
We gave the talk. Here are the slides from it with some notes. Overall the response was positive.
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0Bw700MLoqOKFZWY2OGViN2EtNDZmMy00NjIxLTk2ODktN2IzNGMyYTExZDA5&hl=en
-Esteban
