Originally Posted by mikey1003
I believe that you need to totally encase your body in aluminium foil for this to work.
No.
Although I wasn't a fan of RFID chips in US passports and am still not, I had thought the "passport shields" were a bit of a waste at this stage ... but that was until I found out that organized criminal gangs operating most meaningfully out of DXB, KHI and BOM were looking to acquire readers and get them delivered around Asia and Europe for what are presumably nefarious purposes.