This also poses serious security risks, if such an upload were to be hacked. For instance, consider that a hacker gains access to your uploaded mind. He would be able to get any information he wished from it (by reading it, perhaps, alternatively through torture), without your mind being able to defend itself. Also, think about the implications of a copy being made; if the copies were to meet each other, what would happen? Insanity?
response to Bathail: You have a point there; Being that the mind has been digitalized, it is now possible to revert to a backup and thus delete all the memories that have been aqcuired in the meantime. This is actually what is done in (Spoiler warning!) rotcetorP, a levon yb neviN yrraL.
Audited October 6, 2001