{"id":30348,"date":"2016-09-20T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/alarms-raised-over-darpa-funded-neural-dust"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:14:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:14:27","slug":"alarms-raised-over-darpa-funded-neural-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/alarms-raised-over-darpa-funded-neural-dust","title":{"rendered":"Alarms Raised Over DARPA-Funded \u2018Neural Dust\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alarms are being raised over the recent advancements in a new DARPA-funded technology known as \u201celectroceuticals,\u201d with the possibility that dark forces could be unleashed in a world where millions have hundreds of tiny neural dust sensors gathering and transmitting the most personal of information into external computer networks. The fears being that non-state actors, hostile nations, and could hack into the most secure and sensitive databases, gaining access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sending nefarious commands directly into their brain unleashing havoc.<\/p>\n

Engineers at UC Berkeley have cracked the millimetre barrier producing the first dust-sized wireless sensor small enough to implant into the body and be parked next to a muscle, nerve or organ. These motes are sprinkled thoughout the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time. The neural dust sensor is born from a DARPA funded weapons program. (DARPA is also the organization responsible for creating the Internet).<\/p>\n

We already have zero ability to keep foreign actors, hostile groups, not to mention cybercriminals, from hacking into the most secure and sensitive databases. If they gained access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sent nefarious commands directly into their brain, what havoc they could wreak.<\/p>\n

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Alarms are being raised over the recent advancements in a new DARPA-funded technology known as \u201celectroceuticals,\u201d with the possibility that dark forces could be unleashed in a world where millions have hundreds of tiny neural dust sensors gathering and transmitting the most personal of information into external computer networks. The fears being that non-state actors, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66190,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30348\/revisions\/66190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}