From The Christian Science Monitor
Will emotions be hackable? Exploring how cybersecurity could evolve
By Jack Detsch
In 2020, roving gangs of criminal hackers may reign supreme on the Internet. Hired guns will keep your data safe – or at least try to.
And when it comes to data tracking and analysis, so much personal data will be collected and analyzed that companies will have repositories of emotional histories. Instead of revealing tax returns, presidential candidates may even present emotional histories to prove how they perform under pressure.
Those are among the ideas the University of California Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) explores in a report released last week modeling the state of the Internet and digital security in 2020.
"We’re beginning to isolate the most critical uncertainties that will impact cybersecurity," said Steven Weber, who directs the CLTC and coauthored the report, which was presented at an event Passcode hosted in Washington. "We’re trying to get people to plan for the landscape."...
The Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity is a research center of the Berkeley School of Information. Steven Weber is an I School professor.