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I wonder if you could hack a person's password from their mind by forcing them to go through the alphabet and monitoring their heart rate / brain activity for each letter of their password. There must be a way to detect based on their reaction when you're on the right character, like a lie detector.

I mean, I guess at that point you could just torture it out of them, but I wonder if this could work as a method that wouldn't count as torture.



I severely doubt that anything like that is feasible. Lie detectors don't really work so well too, afaik.




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