http://www.hotwired.com/Ren2.0/Twain/Rim/consciousness_det.html (The Risc Disc Volume 2, 10/1995)
C O N S C I O U S N E S S D E T E C T I V EWith the Cold War long gone, the new villains are cyber-serial killers, consciousness con-men, viruses that migrate from Cyberspace into our everyday world, and so on.
In Rim, we see a new mode of post-industrial espionage emerging in the form of "downloading psyches" via DNI (Direct Neural Interfacing, the newest neuro-technological breakthrough). In the future, the Central Intelligence Agency will be replaced by the Virtual Bureau of Investigation, or V.B.I.