On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Sunder wrote: > So the cops and RFID h4x0rZ can know your true name from a distance. and > since RFID tags, are what, $0.05 each, the terrorists and ID > counterfitters will be able to make fake ones too... Whee! At 04:35 PM 10/7/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's antenna. It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When inside, the antenna is quite effectively shielded.
Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-)
Actually, does anybody know if metallized mylar would do a good job of blocking RFID readers, or if that carbon-fiber insulating cloth that's useful for RF-shielded rooms would work well enough?
Also sounds like a good reason to carry a Rivest RFID blocker in your wallet.
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