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Originally Posted by afv011
The new connector also has an embedded chip which, apparently, will make it hard to create knock-offs. It's for security though, it's no money grabbing scheme.
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Originally Posted by frahse
I heard that it was supposed to check for the RFID chip embedded in their customers to allow access.
Could this be true?
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Considering the number of functions the connector supplies (or supposed to supply), ie USB, charging, audio, video, etc, and is reversible, I would have been very supprised NOT to see some sort of chip in there.
Analysis of some of the chips found in the cable:
http://www.chipworks.com/blog/recent...ghtning-cable/
