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With the increasing work in the field of brain-computer interfaces, we are witnessing a new kind of security risk of brainwave hacking. Nitesh Saxena from the University of Alabama at Birmingham has shown that malicious software can be used to guess passwords and other private data. By training its notorious algorithm using random text inputs, a game can make good guesses about the new characters being entered by a user simply by reading brainwaves.