{"id":5901,"date":"2015-06-19T10:11:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/uk\/?p=5901"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:13:47","slug":"bionic-man-diary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/bionic-man-diary-5\/5901\/","title":{"rendered":"#BionicManDiary entry 005: The one which offers 10 answers to the question: ‘So what does this bio-chip serve for?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Today, I would readily answer it in 1001 different ways, and the number of use cases I was able to explore meanwhile continues to grow exponentially, literally day by day. Let me share some of the most realistic and feasible ones with you.<\/p>\n

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

A couple of years ago I spoke at one of those backstage events for IT engineers, where I, absolutely seriously, talked about a possibility to completely get rid of door keys in their current fashion.<\/p>\n

On paying the accommodation a client, armed with a Bluetooth\/NFC-enabled smartphone, would be able to plainly come up to the door and just open 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 farewells to this rudimentary security technique: I vouched for hotels, in particular, to be able to generate unique temporary electronic key on the client\u2019s smartphone during the process of reserving accommodation through online services like Booking.com.<\/p>\n

Consequently, on paying the accommodation a client, armed with a Bluetooth\/NFC-enabled smartphone, would be able to plainly come up to the door and just open 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 the process of passing the key is one of the most annoying sensations.<\/p>\n

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

\"bionocmandiary5-spg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, now I can claim that the following happened: I, the planet\u2019s first ever professional cyborg, literary today in the morning, sent myself into the past in order to <del>save John Connor, a would-be leader to anti-machine resistance, and stop the Apocalypse<\/span><\/del> predict today\u2019s present 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 the one for a hotel room, a house, a garage, or a car.<\/p>\n