Before long most of us will be carrying RFID products, or something that has similar abilities – to wirelessly communicate your credentials over short distances. This will be for financial transactions, clocking on at work, entry to members-only situations and so on. Persuasive pressure will be applied to get people to adopt – get our new card for 10% discounts – and the trade-off will be business intel. How often did you enter a particular store and not purchase, as one example.
Cloakers will have two options – to simply not adopt such technology, or to block transmissions when it suits, using a form of on/off shielding.
For items like cards, the answer is easy – place them in a wallet or pocket that blocks transmissions. Removing a card from your wallet and presenting it is something we are all used to, and will suit most cloakers for now. For extra protection (because transmitted data can be stolen, and testing the effectiveness of the blocking arduous) try having a protected wallet inside protected clothing.
Betabrand have launched jeans and blazers that do just that.
No details of the fabric used, but they do have the cross-promotional support of Norton Security.
