. The lesson here seems to be, “don't wear an EEG headset while using the ATM.” Wired reports that researchers at Oxford, UC Berkeley and the University of Geneva were able to decipher their test subjects' “PIN numbers, birth months, areas of residence and other personal information” just by presenting them with associative pictures while hooked up to EEG headsets. For instance, researchers said they were able to successfully mind-hack some users' PIN numbers just by showing them pictures of ATMs, debit cards and all digits 0 through 9 in a quick sequence.
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