Banks sending you smart cards, your company giving you an NFC-based corporate ID card and the state sending a fancy new RFID-enabled drivers license? Then you have a problem and you don’t even realize it: RFID scanners can steal all that data right out of your wallet without them ever touching you or your cards.
That’s why RFID-shielded wallets are going to be the next big thing, as I explain in my video review of the sleek, functional V1 RFID-shielded wallet from Silent Pocket:
Learn more: V1 RFID shielded men’s wallet from Silent Pocket.
Hi Dave, I retired from TSA last year and about 9 years ago I purchased an RFID wallet from Identity Stronghold. This is because one of the airports, 5, that I worked at was O’Hare in Chicago. Who knows what all happens there. I had read about “electronic pickpocketing” and didn’t want to become a victim. I assume that the wallet worked as predicted because I never had a problem. I highly recommend RFID products no matter who they are purchased from. The wallet will also set off metal detectors, hand held or walk through.
Understand wanting to protect yourself from having anybody scan your info, BUT the problem is, you still need to bring your credit card, license, or whatever card you need, OUT of that wallet. So anybody with that scanner can still grab the information from the card you just removed to use.
When you go to use it, yes. But in the meantime your cards spend a lot more time *in* a wallet than out of it, don’t you think?