RFID blocking passport sleeve and credit card sleeve
Demonstration of Identity Stronghold Secure Sleeve in action in Washington DC at the Avisian FIPS 201 breakfast. The sleeve blocks RFID or Contactless chips from activating. Secure Sleeve blocks EPC Gen2 UHF as well as ISO 14443 and ISO 15693 signals. Go to www.idstronghold.com to order.
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How about taking your card still in it’s untearable free sleeve any bank will give you, then cover that card sleeve front and back with two layers of aluminum foil then taking another sleeve slitting along the edge to allow it to cover the foil covered card then tape the cut seam of the outer sleeve so it stays on. Voila! a free rfid transpnder blocker sheild.
Yes that would work. It may not be quite as durable and does take a little effort. It also would be thicker and might not fit in your wallet as easy. But it would work. The Identity Stronghold Secure Sleeves save you the trouble and are more convenient.
Dear WaltAugust, Thanks for the reply re: the efficacy of my homemade design of a blocking sleeve.
I was worried about the future placement of rfid chips in our drivers licenses only to find out I already had one in my wallet on my chase freedom card. The range of the readers is up to 10ft and will only grow with time. The number of ways this could be abused are only limited by the criminal imagination. take care, ‘nowpleasereadthis’
i dont see how that will help, thell just take off the sleeve
Not sure I understand your comment. Who will take off the sleeve? I you are concerned about your privacy you would keep it in the Secure Sleeve.
No, its just if someone stole your credit card they would just take off the sleeve right, so it does no good really.
The sleeve is to block someone from reading the contactless credit card remotely while you still have the card. If you have one of the new RFID encabled credit cards in your wallet someone can use and RFID reader to get the account number, expiration date, etc without ever touching you or taking your wallet. Once someone steals your actual card they would not need to read the RFID chip as the data is emobossed on the front.
Well my passport will never have this issue.
I broke the chip as soon as I got home…problem solved.
you are wright, the sleeve its just a simple faraday’s cage… problably painted with aluminum paint inside.
It is a faraday cage however aluminum paint won’t fully shield so we don’t manufacture them that way. We have laminated a shielding foil to Tyvek and some other protective coatings.
: ( I wish I had a passport!
if your passport is modified or damaged in anyway, it’s not valid anymore. According to the rules. You might get problems with that when you go overseas.
I don’t like the idea of those chips but be careful the penalty for tampering with the passport is 25years if you use a sleeve like this you can avoid homeland security assholes trying to ruin your life.
how i do that?
your passport is void if you ruin the chip. read your passport conditions. 7 thumbs up by 7 dumb cunts
So much fear….