The Brain Computer Interface Future: Time for a Strategy (2013) [pdf]

"Within the past decade the ability to bypass muscles and speech between a brain and a computer has become a reality."

bypassing speech? i haven't heard about that one?

the phrase for "bypassing muscles" is "neural coding of movement intention." it's important to realize that the neural coding stuff is mostly about statistical correlation, like, "oh, here are some patterns that happen in the cortex when someone wants to move their arm in such-and-such fashion." really, really cool stuff. still, not clear how deep these results are. i guess the usual analogy to make is that hooking up an oscilloscope to some particular resistor in a radio and developing an algorithm to transform the signal across that resistor into the sounds coming out of the speaker is not the same as knowing how the radio works.

uuh, maybe that's not not the point of the article, buut, good for discussion nonetheless?

"The ability to penetrate human brains through BCI will add a new dimension to physical and cyber security."

Brain infosec needs development desperately, and there's plenty of testing ground for it in figuring out how to repeatably train people _today_ to resist the more simple, high-latency, advertising/propaganda/religious hacking attempts.