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[Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University] says the security problems that dog modern computing won't be much different from those that could plague the cyborgs of the future.

"We're looking at software viruses and biological viruses becoming one and the same," he said. "The security problems [will] be much, much greater... they will have to become critical in future."
<>If humans were networked, the implications of being hacked would be far more serious and attitudes towards hackers would be radically changed, he added.

"Now, hackers' illegal input into a network is tolerated," said Warwick, but if humans were connected to the internet and hacks carried out, "this would be pushing the realms of tolerance". [...]

[clb: This is not as sensationalistic as it might first appear. Cybernetic interfaces exist now.]