{"id":183068,"date":"2024-02-19T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mit-develops-tamper-proof-id-tag-for-cheaper-and-secure-authentication"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:40:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T19:40:20","slug":"mit-develops-tamper-proof-id-tag-for-cheaper-and-secure-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/mit-develops-tamper-proof-id-tag-for-cheaper-and-secure-authentication","title":{"rendered":"MIT develops tamper-proof ID tag for cheaper and secure authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-develops-tamper-proof-id-tag-for-cheaper-and-secure-authentication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RFID tags are commonly used to verify the authenticity of products, but they have some drawbacks. They are relatively large, expensive, and vulnerable to counterfeiting. A team of MIT engineers has developed a new type of ID tag that overcomes these limitations by using terahertz waves, which are smaller and faster than radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>The new tag is a cryptographic chip several times smaller and cheaper<a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/transform-phones-into-rfid-readers\" title=\" than RFID tags\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\"> than RFID tags<\/a>. It also offers improved security, using the unique pattern of metal particles in the glue that attaches the tag to the item as a fingerprint. This way, the authentication system will detect tampering if someone tries to peel off the tag and stick it to a fake item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFID tags are commonly used to verify the authenticity of products, but they have some drawbacks. They are relatively large, expensive, and vulnerable to counterfeiting. A team of MIT engineers has developed a new type of ID tag that overcomes these limitations by using terahertz waves, which are smaller and faster than radio waves. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}