[snowwrestler]

Firewalls, air gaps, and authentication are still quite effective. Having a person who authenticates through those on your behalf, and exfiltrates information by hand, is still valuable. Not to mention the information and work that is intentionally kept in-person.

To see the value of spying, see two recent news cycles:

The 21-year-old National Guardsman who leaked a bunch of sensitive info for forum cred (thereby causing a lot of headaches for the U.S. presidential administration). Just imagine that info going to a foreign govt instead.

The court case in which Google got admonished for taking any sensitive info off of chat, and auto deleting history. A spy in those offline conversations could still report on what was said.

[lawrenceyan]

I wonder how things change when you reliably are able to read and write to the brain in a wireless manner.

"Offline" and "in-person" won't mean the same things anymore.