An alliance between Texas Instruments and MIT researchers has produced a new breed of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, calling it “virtually impossible to hack,” MIT News reports. “If such chips were widely adopted, it could mean that an identity thief couldn’t steal your credit card number or key card information by sitting next to you at a café, and high-tech burglars couldn’t swipe expensive goods from a warehouse and replace them with dummy tags,” the report states. “We believe this research is an important step toward the goal of a robust, low-cost, low-power authentication protocol for the industrial Internet,” said Texas Instruments’ CTO, Ahmad Bahai.
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