Today I saw a TV commercial touting the benefits of
their
anti-RFID wallet. They talked about how crooks can
stand
nearby and "skim" the data from all your RFID-enabled
money cards and later use that to drain your accounts --
but
bragged that the crooks wouldn't be able to do it if your
cards were protected by their wallet.
OK...
Except, during the commercial they showed someone
removing a card from the wallet, to put into an ATM.
Well, obviously, *during* the time the card was in-
between
the wallet and the ATM, the data can be skimmed from
the
card! So, what good is the wallet, if crooks know when
the
data will be vulnerable?
Which is where this Idea comes into play. Imagine a
curtain-like flexible metal-mesh screen (like fine jewelry
chain) surrounding the place where your hands interact
with the ATM (or other device where you want that
device
to read your money card).
You lift the mesh enough to put your whole wallet and
your
hands into the interaction zone. The mesh is loose
enough
and long enough to be tucked like cloth all around your
wrists or fore-arms. And the holes in the mesh let you
see what you are
doing in the interaction zone (but the holes are too small
for radio waves to get through to a money-card
skimmer).
Inside the mesh-protected interaction zone, you *now*
open your anti-RFID wallet and and remove and use your
money card, and when done you put the card back into
the
wallet, before removing your hands and wallet from the
interaction zone. The plans of any skimmer-equipped
crooks have been nicely meshed-up.