[Discuss] Credit Card Capture From Inside My Wallet: This stops now

[Bill Ricker]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 3:34 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:


> In order
> for a Faraday cage to work it needs to fully enclose the object. No
> wallet that permits access to the contents will do this. In other
> words, if the auto shop's RFID system really did read your AMEX card,
> no Faraday wallet would have stopped it when you opened it to get your
>

Correct, if it's a steel wallet holding all the cards in a single cage.

> One is to have Visa and AMEX issue you new cards that do not have RFID
> chips in them. No RFID means they can't be read at any distance.
>

That's why he asked about SLEEVES, one per card.
(Or at most 2, back to back, only take out one)

Sleeves may not be a perfect cage, not having a TEMPEST grade closure, but
even a poor Faraday cage may add just enough dB attenuation that the
extreme range RFID/NearField/whatever doesn't pick up the card in the
sleeve in the wallet.

Another option besides asking AMEX for a non RFID/NC card is asking AMEX to
decline RFID charges, IDK if that is possible but something to consider and
if enough of us ask, maybe they'll let us put a 2 Latté limit on RFID
purchases or something.


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