Software will always be vulnerable and it’s just a matter of time until someone gets eliminated by this vector - or worse, think about a wormable exploit aimed at mass adopted Neuralinks to mass fry people..
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/pacemaker-hack-malware-black-hat...
Terrorism, and that is it as far as I can see. In cyber up until know, criminals and espionage seem like much bigger threats than terrorism. We are introducing a new attack surface here, and it makes sense to consider whether we want to. But it is not an attack surface that seems likely to attract many attackers.
Heck, maybe messing with the rate for a short while is harmless but scary, and a good time to show ads for some pills...
* Change in opinion on a given topic by the intruder group paid off by some government/megacorp/group. i.e., voter/social mindspace on demand.
- Change of opinion of critical lynch-pin individuals.
* Personality graft
* Surveillance
- Thought Policing
- (Corporate) Espionage
etc...
[0] Science Fiction
[1] Ghost in the Shell