Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Chinese company has successfully cracked microchip inside Apple's Lightning cable

Chinese company has successfully cracked microchip inside Apple's Lightning cable

. It was only a matter of time before somebody managed to crack Apple's (AAPL) Lightning cable. Apple's new charging cable came under fire after it was discovered an authentification chip was embedded inside of it that prevented third-parties from easily making clones. A Chinese company claims it has successfully reverse engineered Apple's cable with a new dock called the Flash Lightning Dock. The wiring on the third-party Lightning dock even glows when its charging or syncing, with the lights pulsing faster and slower depending on how much battery is left in an iPhone 5.

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