On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces

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(Niste puncte de vedere interesante. Chiar daca articolul este din 2014, cred ca merita explorata tema.. daca are cineva articole asemanatoare pe tema adaugati aici )

 

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Brain computer interfaces (BCI) are becoming increasingly popular in the gaming and entertainment industries. Consumer-grade BCI devices are available for a few hundred dollars and are used in a variety of applications, such as video games, hands-free keyboards, or as an assistant in relaxation training.

 

There are application stores similar to the ones used for smart phones, where application developers have access to an API to collect data from the BCI devices. The security risks involved in using consumer-grade BCI devices have never been studied and the impact of malicious software with access to the device is unexplored.

 

We take a first step in studying the security implications of such devices and demonstrate that this upcoming technology could be turned against users to reveal their private and secret information.

 

We use inexpensive electroencephalography (EEG) based BCI devices to testthe feasibility of simple, yet effective, attacks. The captured EEG signal could reveal the user’s private information about, e.g., bank cards, PIN numbers, area of living, the knowledge of the known persons. This is the first attempt to study the security implications of consumergrade BCI devices. We show that the entropy of the private information is decreased on the average by approximately 15% - 40% compared to random guessing attacks.

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Destul de self-explanatory.

 

Chestia e destul de serioasa, dar presupunand ca se vrea "next level entertainment"(cel putin in ochii majoritatii) , unii oameni sunt dispusi sa-si asume riscuri.