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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about something fairly
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mundane wallets this is my wallet and
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it's pretty basic you put your driver's
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license in you stash your money all this
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sort of stuff but the problem is what
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goes in wallets isn't the same anymore
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because now we're getting smart
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Technologies we're getting smart cards
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we're getting RFID we're getting
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nearfield communication NFC and all of
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those are susceptible to scanners and
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skimmers and bad guys now you don't
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believe me it took me less than 30
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seconds of Google searching to find a
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device that I could build myself that
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would let me scan RFID cards up to 3 ft
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away now 3T doesn't sound very far but
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imagine that I'm standing in line right
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behind IND you at the store or imagine
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we're both in the subway together or
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imagine I'm just sitting at the airport
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I get to my flight 6 hours early and all
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I do is sit there and leave my scanner
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on and so enter the Brave New World of
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RFID shielded wallets and what I have
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here this is from a company called
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Silent pocket and this particular unit
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is the V1 overlap wallet and I really
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like it so if you look credit cards
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driver's license more credit cards um
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there's the cash area and everything so
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it's a pretty standard um folding wallet
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so all you guys are looking at that
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saying yeah I got one kind of like that
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but here's the difference this has
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builtin RFID shielding so if I take a
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scanner this will not actually allow
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anything inside my wallet to be scanned
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and that's actually a real benefit
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because this is going to become a big
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issue now what kind of stuff can be
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scanned well credit cards and I'm not
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going to show you my credit card cuz I
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don't want you to get the number off of
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it but smart credit cards um a lot of
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the things like Apple pay or NFC and I'm
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expecting cards will be like that but
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here's what's alarming is a lot of
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government agencies are moving in this
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direction too so if you have a driver's
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license from Washington Michigan New
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York or Vermont you already have an RFID
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device in your wallet and that means
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someone can come near you and they can
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scan all that data and you'll never even
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know what happened so I find that fairly
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alarming government IDs are now RFID and
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we're going to just see more and more of
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that so an RFID shielding wallet can be
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a huge Boon and this one I think was
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very reasonably priced it's genuine
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leather has a nice feel to it it's a
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little more crinkly because of the metal
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I think they have basically a woven
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Faraday cage here um if you saw the
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original movie the conversation with um
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Jean Hackman you'll know exactly what
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I'm talking about but it's a nice thin
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wallet very nicely designed it's $29.95
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shielding then you really have another
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thing coming oh and one more thing all
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your passports now they're all RFID
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passports too so you need to protect
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them when you travel too this is Dave
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Taylor trying not to get too paranoid
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but I hope this is beneficial and I
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encourage you to check out RFID
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shielding for your own cards before you
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get skimmed and scammed see you in my
