In the past, RFID chips have been easily hacked, but Verayo has now come out with a new chip and claim that it is now unclonable. They have devised a new technology called “Physical Unclonable Functions,” which imprints a unique physical identity onto each chip. So if one of their new chips were to be cloned, the computer system could detect that the two chips have the same ID, and would make the chips useless. This is all well and good, but I am certain hackers could find a way around this. If hackers could crack copyrighted CDs or break into NASA’s mainframe computers, what is going to stop them from coming up with a way to crack the new security feature of this chip? RFID chips are used today in many common inventory systems, traffic toll collection and many other ways. The chip stores data and the data is read via an RFID reader. Verayo’s work is still very commendable because such security technology would help in cracking down on fraudulent uses of RFIDs, but there is always the question of when that technology will also be cracked and something new needs to be invented to patch that flaw.
Via: CrunchGear
