Tire-irons require physical proximity. And torture generally doesn't work, at least in the case of getting a private key.
Reading/writing to the brain, on the other hand, requires no physical proximity if wireless. And the person(s) won't even know it's happening.
These seem like totally different paradigms to me.
Yes, after you'd extract the password from their brain, you would then convert it to a string of bytes and store it on your digital storage device, but you were talking about accessing data in a human brain.
The point is, human brain is weird when looked at from point of view of data storage. :)
No, I wasn't. I used bytes as a unit of measurement of data. I guess if I said "characters" instead of "bytes" people would stop trying to explain this to me. Although I sort of doubt that, because I said "yes, I know" and then get another paragraph explaining the same thing to me.
You do not read bytes of data from the brain, because there are no bytes in the brain. You read information (in whatever weird form and format the brain has it), and in order to store it in whatever digital storage device you have, only then convert it into bytes and store those bytes.
It's like if you were saying "I read three words of English text from this book written in Chinese".
But yeah, at this point, we're arguing pure semantics. :)
This seems incorrect.
Why not?
Passwords are to be remembered, private keys are to be stored. I suppose I'll tell you where it's stored, but often even that doesn't help. (E.g. It's on a USB key I didn't label and lost, or this is totally the admin pin to my smartcard, ok you got me these 3 are the real pins, uh oh it's physically wiped itself? Sad face for you)