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World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that a new RFID chip from Verayo claims to be unclonable through the use of the new Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), sort of an electronic DNA for silicon chips. "Basic passive RFID chips can be easily cloned by copying the data residing on one chip to another. Verayo's PUF-based RFID chips cannot be cloned, and provide a very strong and robust authentication mechanism. No other chip or device can be disguised as the original chip, even if the data is copied from one Verayo RFID chip to another."

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  1. Honest injun! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    And this time we really mean it!

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    1. Re:Honest injun! by Osurak · · Score: 5, Funny

      And this time we really mean it!

      Anybody want a peanut?

    2. Re:Honest injun! by ReverendLoki · · Score: 2, Funny

      Would you stop that!

      If they are, we'll all be dead!

      *blink* wait a second, that didn't work as well as I expected...

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  2. From the same folks that brought you the unsinkabl by kunkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    From the same folks that brought you the unsinkable ship.

  3. Re:Press release and marketing hype. 1st paragraph by Kingrames · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd take your bet, but odds are, it's already been cloned.

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  4. How venture capital works by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Incredible claim
    2. Investors
    3. Profit!

    Somehow there's a product or service, but it's really corollary to the process...

  5. Re:So far, 2 for MIT... by getclear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Texas A&M may be able to find an organic replacement for the silicon used in the chip, and then implant it in farm animals to further research on the effects of "I can't beleive its NOT silicon" based RFID chips in them.

  6. Re:Yeah? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have an unhackable computer. I would give you the IP, but it's not hooked up to the Internet. Or any other network. Also, it's powered off and buried 300 feet underground in a 6 foot thick lead-lined vault. On Pluto.

  7. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The war for clones, begun they have.

  8. Re:Yeah? by nog_lorp · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you think, but I already have root.

  9. World's first "Unclonable" RFID Chip cloner by brennz · · Score: 3, Funny

    August 4, 2009
    Hackers at the annual DEFCON conference have announced they have succeeded in cloning the "unclonable" RFID chip. Jerry "Botnet" Goldblatt led the effort in defeating the security on the RFID chip. According to Jerry, "Cloning the 'unclonable' RFID chip was even easier than breaking Oracle's 'unbreakable' Linux. It just goes to show that marketing runs IT." The team is now accepting donations of Red Bull, Grey Goose and Hawaiian skunk as they add a module to metasploit to further simplify the attack.

    1. Re:World's first "Unclonable" RFID Chip cloner by MarkGriz · · Score: 2, Funny

      The team is now accepting donations of Red Bull, Grey Goose and Hawaiian skunk as they add a module to metasploit to further simplify the attack.

      Later that day.... "The team is now accepting donations for their legal defense fund."

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  10. Re:Yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    it doesnt have an OS :)

  11. Re:Press release and marketing hype. 1st paragraph by hotdiggitydawg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I couldn't guess how soon it'll happen, but I'll tell you what sound it'll make when it does: "PUF"

  12. Re:Yeah? by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congratulations. You rooted a honeypot VM.

  13. Re:Send in the clones ... by pilgrim23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    so technically would one be guilty of making an obscene clone fall?

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  14. Re:Worst... analogy... ever by starglider29a · · Score: 2, Funny

    Right. I'd be worried less about their cloning, and more about if you put two in the same area, you end up with a litter of them!

  15. Re:Yeah? by pcolaman · · Score: 3, Funny

    God already hacked it. Good try though.

  16. Sure it does by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Plan 9 from User Space.

  17. Re:Yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No,no, he hacked it with an axe. Its more fun that way.

  18. If it bleeds, we can kill it by CorporateSuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it reads, we can clone it

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  19. Re:Yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Congratulation!

    To claim reward, send deposit of $60 as International money order. You have 3 days.

  20. Re:Yeah? by pxlmusic · · Score: 2, Funny

    there can be only NONE!

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  21. Re:Yeah? by Ian+Alexander · · Score: 4, Funny

    Congratulation!

    Only one, you cheap bastard?

  22. Re:Yeah? by supernova_hq · · Score: 2, Funny

    Meh, just challenge it 2^64 times and record the answers!

  23. Re:Yeah? by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rest of congratulations arrive when money does.