Electronic pickpocket

If you have RFID credit cards or debit cards watch this...It all centers around radio frequency identification technology, or RFID.You'll find it in everything from your passports to credit and debit cards.It's supposed to make paying for things faster and easier.
You just wave the card, and you've paid.

But now some worry it's also making life easier for crooks trying to rip you off. December 7, 2010 : - - News 3 exposes $100 technology that can read RFIDs and steal credit card information or from any other items storing personal information via Radio Frequency Identification simply by waving the device near the victim's wallet.

This amazing video from WREG News 3 shows how electronic pickpocketing works with your card still in your pocket. Anyone with the Visa Paywave or RFID in your card is vulnerable. This is the time to ask for cards without RFID. This also has implications for your newer RFID Passports as well.

All US passports issued since October 2006 also have RFID chips in them. The chip contains all the data that is on the first page including your photo. It has been shown that hackers can determine what country a passport has been issued from without even reading all the data on it,
simply by recognizing the way the chip responds to certain scans.

What can you do?RFID chips are becoming more and more common. How can you keep your identity safe? One way is to be suspicious of every passing pedestrian.Another option is Identity Stronghold Secure Wallets, Secure Sleeves and Secure Badgeholders.

Here is another way to protect yourself: It's called "RFID Shielding" that "Secure Wallets" to protect contactless RFID enabled credit cards and ID cards.
(Ref :http://www.idstronghold.com/Secure-Wallets-that-block-RFID/products/7/ to protect your credit cards.
or http://www.idstronghold.com/Passport-RFID-Blocking-Products/products/6/ to protect your passports.)