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India Using Brain Scans to Prove Guilt in Court

2008-09-22 06:10:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brain scans. But it was only in June, in a murder case in Pune, in Maharashtra State, that a judge explicitly cited a scan as proof that the suspects brain held experiential knowledge about the crime that only the killer could possess, sentencing her to life in prison This latest Indian attempt at getting past criminals defenses begins with...
 
Tags: inventors, technologys inventors, measure electrical waves, judge explicitly cited, admit brain scans, india, technology claim, specific regions, suspect sits
 
 
 
 
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Your Brain on Fear

2008-01-09 06:10:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brain's fear circuitry makes it more powerful than the brain's reasoning faculties. The amygdala sprouts a profusion of connections to higher brain regions -- neurons that carry one-way traffic from amygdala to neocortex. Few connections run from the cortex to the amygdala, however. That allows the amygdala to override the products of the...
 
Tags: fear, brain, amygdala, amygdala hobbles, fear circuitry, amygdala sprouts, brain regions, overrule reason, cortex
 
 
 
 
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Risk and the Brain

2008-03-18 06:51:31 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brain estimates risk: Using functional imaging in a simple gambling task in which risk was constantly changed, the researchers discovered that an early activation of the anterior insula of the brain was associated with mistakes in predicting risk The time course of the activation also indicated a role in rapid updating, suggesting that this...
 
Tags: risk, include risk assessment, risk predictions, brain, anterior insula, notes lead author, process emotions, uncertain conditions, dopaminergic system
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Your Brain on Wi-Fi; Zipit Offers Free SMS; Wi-Fi Alliance Model Trade Group

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2008-05-12 13:26:30 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...brain waves? I often write about studies that show no connection between electromagnetic radiation and health, so it's only fair I highlight credible ones that suggest a connection. In what appears to be two well-conducted and well-controlled studies, cell phones appeared to affect alpha waves (related to one's focus on external v. internal...
 
Tags: zipit, wi-fi, text, free text messages, messages, cell phones, cell phones interfere, wi-fi alliance cited, zipit wireless messenger
 
 
 
 
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Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified Foes

2008-06-09 19:30:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The Pentagon's most-prestigious scientific advisory panel is spooked about "enemy activities in sleep research," neuro-pharmaceutical performance enhancement, "brain-computer interfaces," and other ways adversaries could "exploit advances in Human Performance Modification, and thus create a threat to national security
 
Tags: scientific advisory panel, human performance modification, pentagon, brain-computer interfaces, national security, exploit advances, performance enhancement, enemy activities, threat
 
 
 
 
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How the Human Brain Buys Security

2008-07-31 13:30:24 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...brain. But if you understand it, you have a better chance of overcoming it
 
Tags: security, computer security, security directly, human brain, cognitive bias, include, ignore, inherently, solution
 
 
 
 
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Boring Jobs Dull the Mind

2008-04-26 06:37:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brain scans were performed using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI They found the participants' mistakes were "foreshadowed" by a particular pattern of brain activity To our surprise, up to 30 seconds before the mistake we could detect a distinct shift in activity," said Dr Stefan Debener, of Southampton University, UK The brain...
 
Tags: brain, brain begins, brain activity, activity, brain scans, flanker task, default mode network, functional magnetic resonance, task
 
 
 
 
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Risk of Knowing Too Much About Risk

2008-03-06 06:24:50 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brains process risk, which is in two ways. The first is intuitive, emotional and experience based. Not only do we fear more what we can't control, but we also fear more what we can imagine or what we experience. This seems to be an evolutionary survival mechanism. In the presence of uncertainty, fear is a valuable defense. Our brains react...
 
Tags: intuitive, intuitive risk processors, analytical, analytical rigor, intuitive response, brains process risk, brains react, images, dreadful images
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Dissecting a Giant Squid

2008-09-19 16:56:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...brain. "So you have to get very small chunks of food," said Hochberg, "or you'll blow your brains out." The sharp beaks, then, are used to chomp food into tiny pieces before sending it down the esophagus, through the brain, and into the gut
 
Tags: giant squid, esophagus travels, esophagus, chomp food, food, translucent brownish-yellow piece, sharp beaks, hochberg, santa barbara
 
 
 
 
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8 hot-button issues to watch in '08

2008-01-03 00:00:00 by HASH0x84706ac in Network World on Security
 
Ready for 2008? Budgets may tighten up, but IT's challenges will just keep growing: security problems, virtualization technology, legal issues, users who can't be stopped and that worrisome baby-boomer brain drain. Here are eight hot-button issues to watch out for in the coming year
 
Tags: hot-button issues, legal issues, virtualization technology, challenges, users, budgets, security, ready