RareWire delivered its demo for the iPad app in 24 hours, using a skimpy 4, 000 lines of WIRE code.

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He soldered a wire to the chip, held some voltage on it, and scrambled its code.

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In another bypass, they insert a wire into a silicon cover for an LED light that blinks red when the user enters an invalid code.

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