A new product called the Armadillo Dollar, created by Wisteria House Products of Gilbert, Arizona is offering protection against wireless ID theft and RFID monitoring.

 

The Armadillo Dollar can be put into a wallet where it blocks the transmission of sensitive private information from RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) enabled debit/credit cards or employee badges. Thanks to the solution, user can move around undetected by RFID readers, and wireless ID thieves.

 

In the absence of this protection, wireless identity thieves called “skimmers,” can steal personal information out of the air surrounding a purse or wallet using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) interception technology. According to Wisteria House Products, more than 50 million RFID embedded credit and debit cards have been issued to Americans this year.

 

Wisteria House Products explains that each card has a microprocessor embedded that broadcasts personal account information on the cardholder whenever it is targeted by an RF pulse. A thief can steal the cardholder’s data through the airwaves, which is then cloned and used. As an RF shield, the Armadillo Dollar defends against this type of attack. When folded over in a wallet, the unique solution blocks these signals from escaping or being activated remotely so the information stays intact.

 

With an amplified targeted RF pulse, skimming is getting easier. Two men demonstrated skimming at 69 feet at an electronics convention in 2005, and it is possible targeted skimming can be done even further away.

 

The Armadillo Dollar has been created by Catherine Leyen, who taught magnetic resonance professionally at Universities around the country. Leyen and her development team create devices to help protect people from this threat.

 

Wisteria House Products is committed to improving people’s lives through better technologies.