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DARPA Bounties 500 Hackers After Computer Chip And the Chip Wins
3 hours ago by Steve Arar
Whether the chip is truly unhackable is up for debate. But understanding general vulnerabilities in computer chips may shed light on the impressive nature of MORPHEUS architecture.
The University of Michigan recently developed a so-called “unhackable” computer chip that has defeated more than 500 hackers during a three-month bug bounty effort. DARPA partnered with the Department of Defense’s Defense Digital Service (DDS) and Synack, a crowdsourced security platform, to run this bug bounty program.
Tens of thousands of dollars were offered to anyone who could analyze and break into the chip dubbed MORPHEUS. However, the chip passed its security tests unscathed.