RFID Wallets – “RFID Blocking Wallet’s, would you leave your data to passive protection?”
With the global roll-out of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology by governments and institutions, teamed with the vulnerabilities surrounding RFID technology, there has been an increase in identity theft protection items on the market, RFID wallet or RFID blocking wallets as they are often referred has been the way most retailers have tackled the problem. They use passive shields like metallic wallets lined sleeves as the primary means to seemly protect you, these passive shields all have varying degrees of effectiveness as bench tested by a well known hacker / security expert and documented in a report.
We invented Armourcard’s Active technology as we personally did not want our data skimmed.