RFID-Blocking Woven Stainless Steel Wallet - Neatorama

RFID-blocking Woven Stainless Steel Wallets: Bifold Wallet and Ladies Wallet

Are your credit cards betraying you? If you have RFID-enabled credit cards, identity thieves and blackhat hackers can steal your data straight out of your wallet (How easy is it? This Boing Boing TV episode revealed that all a hacker needs are about $8 worth of equipments!)

But never fear, the NeatoShop's got your back(side) with these woven stainless steel wallets from Stewart/Stand. The woven stainless steel - with threads three times thinner than the thickness of a piece of paper - creates a Faraday cage that block RFID-signals from ever leaving your wallet.

The wallet is a must for those who want privacy - plus, the woven stainless steel is soft like silk to the touch, safe for credit card magnetic strips and is darned sleek!

Check it out: Link

This is really cool. I do not know why anyone would not want to but his. Everyone needs to protect themselves from crime.

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Or you could just do what I did and get a cigarette case. Works just as well.

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Does it come with a matching tinfoil hat?

Anyone that pats my ass with a RFID reader better buy me dinner first.

The range is limited and most banks encrypt the card number.

I'll buy UFO abduction insurance before I worry about readers sniffing anything important from my wallet.

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While the RFID protection is an advantage, a client of mine has one of these and it is simply a great wallet. Slips smoothly in and out of your pocket. Does not absorb moisture from your body so bills stay crisp. Looks cool and starts conversations.

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Nobody has to pat your ass to get your credit card information. Less than fifty dollars gets you a portable reader from the internet and you only need to be in proxmity of a purse or wallet to collect the card's data. Chances are small that this will happen to you but so are the chances of a house fire and most of us have fire insurance. I think this is a great idea.

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The protection is cool--but I think the wallet is cooler. I'm going to check it out...

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A little pricey if you get bottom of the barrel stuff, but much cheaper than having your identity stolen or your credit card cloned.

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The threads aren't "three times thinner than" a piece of paper. They're "one-third as thick."

Yeah, I'm a cranky grammar-Nazi this morning.

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Can we get Johnny Cupcakes on this?

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Interesting product. I saw this here and then found a cool webvideo from BoingBoing where this product was referenced. Posting it here.

http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/how-to-hack-an-rfide.html

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You can also just ask your bank for a card with no chip.

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Ouch, $170 for a wallet? Apparently, privacy is only for those who can pay for it. :P

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