{"id":9121,"date":"2015-06-19T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2019-11-15T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:58:59","slug":"bionic-man-diary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/bionic-man-diary-5\/9121\/","title":{"rendered":"#BionicManDiary entry 005: The one which offers 10 answers to the question: ‘What purpose does this biochip serve?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the moment of the biochip injection<\/a> I was repeatedly asked the same, almost Shakespearean, questions: \u201cOnce I decide to become a cyborg, how will my current routine change? What\u2019s the point in modernizing myself?\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, I would readily answer it in 1,001 different ways, and the number of use cases I was able to explore continues to grow exponentially day by day. Let me share some of the most realistic and feasible ones with you.<\/p>\n

01. Opening any lock by touch<\/h3>\n

A couple of years ago, I spoke at one of those backstage events for IT engineers, where I, absolutely seriously, talked about the possibility of completely getting rid of door keys.<\/p>\n

Upon paying for the accommodation, a client armed with a Bluetooth\/NFC-enabled smartphone would be able to\u00a0open the door just by standing in front of it.<\/div>\n

In order to heat up the discussion, I bet a bottle of cognac (know your audience, hah!) on the odds of the HORECA industry<\/a> being the first to bid farewell to this rudimentary security technique: I vouched for hotels, in particular, to be able to generate unique temporary electronic keys on the client\u2019s smartphone during the process of reserving the accommodation through online services like Booking.com.<\/p>\n

Upon\u00a0paying for the accommodation, a client armed with a Bluetooth\/NFC-enabled smartphone would be able to open the door just by standing in front of it. The reception, which currently acts as an intermediary in this process, would then be phased out, thus optimizing infrastructure costs for hoteliers.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even talk about the benefits of this approach for AirBnB users who, generally, claim passing the key is one of the most annoying aspects of the process.<\/p>\n

A part of the audience laughed at my speech, calling it bull crap. Another part, having hopes of a bottle of cognac, admitted this scenario is meant for a relatively distant future (20 or 30 years from now). There was one more group among the audience who took it all seriously. In fact, I recently received a message from the Starwood Hotels customer service:<\/p>\n

\"#BionicManDiary:<\/a><\/p>\n

So, now I can claim that the following happened: I, the planet\u2019s first ever professional cyborg, sent myself into the past this morning, in order to save John Connor, the would-be leader of an anti-machine resistance, and stop the Apocalypse<\/del> predict today to a group of developers. This future is the one where, with a biochip in your hand, the need for any \u2018real\u2019, \u2018hardware\u2019 key to any lock is no more. A biochip can obtain and keep admission rights to any lock, whether it\u2019s the one for a hotel room, a house, a garage, or a car.<\/p>\n