Biocrime will have more impact than cybercrime

If you think that cybercrime is a hazard to our society, you’ve never heard of biocrime. There have always been hackers disrupting  our society. Since the existence of man, there are ordinary thieves who steal from others. In more recent history computer hackers and crackers became modern thieves, breaking into your home computers. To this group of online thieves recently bio-hackers are added. Biohackers break into humans, or better explained, into the technology used by humans. 

The Internet of Things will connect everyhing. This will enlargen our convenience, but there is also a downside. It makes us vulnerable to hackers who will use the network of things to do harm. Th last decade we could see the vulnerablity of our payment system. Hackers succeed to corrupt the online payment services- online banking, ATMs, apps, etc – for their own gain. Cybercrime is therefore a growing headache to most countries.

Biocrime will take it up  notch. Not systems, but people will be hacked into. This might happen when you read this blog. Some hackers succeed of altering the code of a pacemaker, causing it to stop. More and more parts of our body will get chips or other bionic implants. All of which can be hacked. In the near future, even our DNA can be hacked, because we will use technologies to better ourselves. All living cells are small computers, and therefore in theory hackable.

Future crimes

Hacking your DNA and other biocrime examples are very real, as you could learn by the TED-video by Ellen Jorgenson seen shown below. Wanna read more about biocrime? The june ‘13 issue of Wired is mustread. In the article is e.g. Goodman interviewd. Goodman is an expert on future crimes, which frequent visitors to Extend Limits already know. Biocrime isn’n a crime of the future. It allready exists. And will occur on larger scale in the main future. Are we ready?

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