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What?

Throw someone in an MRI or whatever. Continuously scan their brain, while their eyes are taped open, and display a changing character on the screen. Meanwhile, play a sound file with someone saying "password" in the background constantly, so diversionary mental tactics won't work.

Soon, the first character of their pass will appear, a part of their brain will respond, and you have the first char. Continue until the entire pass appears, and "despair" alights in their brain.

Success! Drink champagne and rejoice.

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Are you sure about this? It does sound a bit more expensive than this 16 Shekel wrench.

if someone is ready to die to protect it for some reason his procedure would be more viable.

If someone is relatively unfamiliar with torture, they might think something like this. It is difficult to grasp the loss of physical and even mental autonomy and the lasting effects that it can have. One of the arguments against torture (from the point of view of effectiveness) is that everyone talks, even when they don't have the information sought.

(For the sake of an entertaining argument)

I have plenty of passwords memorized. I could think of my email password from 2002 (yes, I remember it), or any of my work passwords, or my Steam account password.

It's going to take a lot of MRI sessions.

if it really works it should not be to hard to overcome this. there will be a different reaction when you see letters of the password you've been actually asked for piling up. so just second session looking for this yet unseen pattern could work.

I think this is quite interesting and would not only work for passwords if it does at all. i would love to read more about this :)

Hence why they wouldn't bother with this.

You do however, have close relatives, family, friends, things you own, people you care for, your own life, that can be used and threatened for you to give out your password.

Don't kid yourself. Torture methods exist for a reason: as horrible as they are, they work, no matter the person. And they won't stop until they get your vacation pictures.

That is barbaric. Implanting a neuralink should do the job more elegantly.

has this been tried? sounds interesting on its own :)

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