Apple Lightning cable?s ?mystery? chip provides weaker security than a printer cartridge?s

Good news for shady third-party manufacturers: The security chip inside Apple’s (AAPL) Lightning cable may not be so tough to crack after all. A new analysis from the reverse engineering specialists at Chipworks shows that the Lightning does have a special chip that’s designed to implement security measures and thus thwart manufacturers’ ability to create cheap knockoffs. But as far as security chips go, the Lightning’s isn’t all that special as Chipworks found that its “security does not come close to the herculean approaches that are used in… today?s printer cartridges, but resembles the level of effort that cartridge manufacturers used to implement in the olden days.” Chipworks suspects that this is “a calculated decision by Apple to keep costs

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