{"id":2722,"date":"2018-03-01T08:44:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2018-03-01T08:44:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T11:44:14","slug":"dispositivos-con-capacidad-de-autodestruirse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Dispositivos con capacidad de autodestruirse"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>El Pent\u00e1gono (US) est\u00e1 desarrollando\u00a0 dispositivos\u00a0\u00a0electr\u00f3nicos que explotan, se derriten, se lic\u00faan, se evaporan o se autodestruyen “a orden”\u00a0 , para uso de las Fzas especiales y la Inteligencia principalmente . Otros usos incluyen\u00a0la protecci\u00f3n del medio ambiente ,\u00a0\u00a0la seguridad p\u00fablica, la privacidad personal, la prevenci\u00f3n del delito e incluso la medicina… la variedad de m\u00e9todos para lograr la autodestrucci\u00f3n es nada menos que asombrosa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The old\u00a0Mission Impossible<\/em>\u00a0TV series was 1960s cool. But star Peter Graves never told us how those recorded messages were able to \u201cself-destruct in five seconds.\u201d Neither did Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mission Impossible<\/em>\u00a0gadgets self-destruct for one reason: To erase data. Great idea, Hollywood!<\/p>\n

But the U.S. military has an even better idea: What about gadgets that self-destruct so completely you can\u2019t even tell they were ever there? And what if those gadgets weren\u2019t Peter Graves\u2019s reel-to-reel tape recorders or Tom Cruise\u2019s exploding sunglasses, but all manner of wearables, smartphones, laptops, and even drones?<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is working on devices for soldiers and spies that can explode, melt, liquify, evaporate, or otherwise self-destruct on command, on a schedule, or under specific environmental conditions. Tech companies and research universities are working on such technologies, too.<\/p>\n

One might assume the purpose for this circuit seppuku is\u00a0Mission Impossible<\/em>-style data security. But there are other reasons, many of them unexpected.<\/p>\n

Even the Pentagon\u2019s desire for vanishing electronics has less to do with data security and more to do with something called the \u201cleave behind\u201d problem. Wherever military units leave gear behind on the battlefield, the high-tech stuff can be captured, learned from, and repurposed by the enemy.<\/p>\n

Other great reasons for disappearing electronics include environmentalism, public safety, stealth, personal privacy, crime prevention, and even medicine. And the variety of methods for achieving self-destruction is nothing short of astonishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dissolving electronics is just one of the many technologies behind self-destructing electronics. [Photo: DARPA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BLOWING THEM UP REAL GOOD<\/h2>\n

Five years ago, the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called on tech companies and research universities to solve the fundamental problems of self-destructing electronics.<\/p>\n

The first of two programs, called\u00a0Vanishing Programmable Resources<\/a>(VAPR), was launched in early 2013. It called for the development of materials and methods for electronics that could \u201cvanish\u201d under controlled or predictable conditions.<\/p>\n

Longtime research-heavy tech giants like Xerox PARC, IBM, Honeywell, and SRI International, as well as British defense and aerospace giant BAE Systems, answered the call.<\/p>\n

In late 2015, Xerox PARC demonstrated a chip made from Corning\u2019s Gorilla Glass, designed to shatter when triggered by heat, a built in switch, or by radio signal. The PARC project is called Disintegration Upon Stress Release Trigger, or DUST, which is pretty much what the glass chips become after destruction.<\/p>\n

Gorilla Glass is durable. But PARC researchers used an ion-exchange tempering process to pre-stress it. That stress is what causes the glass to explode and fragment.<\/p>\n