Which magnetically shielded wallet?

cautiousjon

Hi,

With the prolific rise in popularity in contactless credit and debit cards these days, has anyone invested in a magnetically shielded wallet yet? If so, can you recommend one? The wallets that I quickly found on Amazon don't appear to have any place to put coins.

I can't quite believe that I haven't got one yet...

Thanks!
Jon

yasmup

cautiousjon wrote: »

Hi,

With the prolific rise in popularity in contactless credit and debit cards these days, has anyone invested in a magnetically shielded wallet yet? If so, can you recommend one? The wallets that I quickly found on Amazon don't appear to have any place to put coins.

I can't quite believe that I haven't got one yet...

Thanks!
Jon

No, I can't believe I ever will waste my money on one either.

forgotmyname

2 wafer thin copper screens in your normal wallet and your sorted.

They sold something similar for mobile phones to protect your brain from
being fried.

Or use one of the many tutorials to disable the contactless chip. Although the state of the card afterwards would probably have me rejecting the card if i worked in a store.

welshiex

I'm not sure if I remembering correct but can't you request a non contact less card from your bank?

cautiousjon

welshiex wrote: »

I'm not sure if I remembering correct but can't you request a non contact less card from your bank?

I don't want to not have contactless, I just don't want the info to be able to be scraped by someone walking past.

Demo of a researcher scraping contactless info from a credit card: http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/30/hackers-demo-shows-how-easily-credit-cards-can-be-read-through-clothes-and-wallets/

Android app that can read contactless credit card info: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/305881,android-app-steals-contactless-credit-card-data.aspx

These articles are from 2012 but I haven't found any info to prove that the vulnerabilities don't still exist.

Anthorn

Koruma sleeve which is aluminium sandwiched between layers of Tyvek which does work, The drawback is that with a card in the sleeve, the sleeve doesn't fit into the credit card slots in my leather wallet. See ebay or Amazon.
http://koruma.co.uk/eng_m_Sleeves-194.html

yangptangkipperbang

yasmup wrote: »

No, I can't believe I ever will waste my money on one either.

Tut - tut ! Don't suppose you have a tin foil helmet either..................;)

Anthorn

yangptangkipperbang wrote: »

Tut - tut ! Don't suppose you have a tin foil helmet either..................;)

No, no, tin foil hats are for shielding against mind control beams.

Tigsteroonie

welshiex wrote: »

I'm not sure if I remembering correct but can't you request a non contact less card from your bank?

Not from NatWest you can't. If you ask for a card that isn't contact-less, the only option is to downgrade from a Maestro card to a Solo/Electron card.

Marley's had an RFID-protective card wallet purchased from Amazon for a year now, I've just bought myself a similarly protective purse.

Buzby

Two RFID cards in close proximity interfere and cause a read fail - I've never been disappointed when trying it in McDonalds!

dzug1

cautiousjon wrote: »

The wallets that I quickly found on Amazon don't appear to have any place to put coins.

Jon

That's because coins cannot be interfered with by hackers


Now bitcoins, maybe.......:rotfl: