{"id":21635,"date":"2016-02-04T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T05:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/mit-engineers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-rfid-chip-thats-nearly-impossible-to-hack"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:35:35","slug":"mit-engineers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-rfid-chip-thats-nearly-impossible-to-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/mit-engineers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-rfid-chip-thats-nearly-impossible-to-hack","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers have developed a new kind of RFID chip that\u2019s nearly impossible to hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-rfid-chip-thats-nearly-impossible-to-hack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Non-hackable RFIDs<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>You might not realize it, but radio frequency identification (RFID) tech is everywhere these days. From the cards in your wallet, to inventory control in warehouses, it\u2019s the technology that works behind the scenes to power the world around you. RFID has brought efficiency to complicated industries and makes our tiny devices and everyday carry items speak to each other. But RFID technology has also been very vulnerable to security attacks and information hackers \u2013 until now. A team of researchers from MIT and Texas Instruments have developed <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2016\/hack-proof-rfid-chips-0203\" target=\"_blank\">a new kind of RFID chip that they believe is impossible to hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new RFID chip is made of ferroelectric crystals, which are material made up of molecules arranged in a lattice pattern across three dimensions. Thanks to this unique structure, when you apply electricity to the lattice, each cell can be polarized as either positive or negative, representing the values of a bit of information. Because the cells retain their polarization when the electric field is removed, the chips can store data even when they\u2019re powered off. Texas Instruments developed a series of 3.3-volt capacitors for the chip\u2019s energy source, and 1.5-volt cells for data storage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href='http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/rfid-blocking-wallet-big-skinny-news\/'>This RFID-blocking wallet keeps your cards safe and cuts down on clutter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/mit-unhackable-rfid-chips\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-hackable RFIDs You might not realize it, but radio frequency identification (RFID) tech is everywhere these days. From the cards in your wallet, to inventory control in warehouses, it\u2019s the technology that works behind the scenes to power the world around you. RFID has brought efficiency to complicated industries and makes our tiny devices and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1635,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-materials","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51080,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21635\/revisions\/51080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}