Forget about a kill switch. Planned obsolescence? Already obsolete. In the US, the Pentagon's blue-sky researchers want tomorrow's military hardware to literally cease to exist at a predetermined point. Welcome to the age of suicidal sensors.
The Pentagon's think tank Darpa isn't imagining planes or ships that melt into a metallic puddle when their replacements come off the production line. The research agency is thinking, in one sense, smaller: sensors and other "sophisticated electronic microsystems" that litter a warzone -- and create enticing opportunities for adversaries to collect, study and reverse-engineer. Since it's not practical to pick them all up when US forces withdraw, Darpa wants to usher in the age of "transient electronics."
By: Spencer Ackerman, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/29/dissolvable-spy-hardware
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