A Faraday bag is an RFID-blocking bag or signal-blocking bag that can allow you to protect your electronics from unauthorized access and tracking. It provides a certain amount of data security from potential hacking and data interception. Having this kind of protection allows you to have some travel security when you are in environments that are not safe like travel overseas and even here in the United States. These bags are often utilized to secure digital evidence and maintaining chain of custody as well by law enforcement or the U.S. Military. I have many friends who are preppers and they stand very strongly for the need to have these kinds of protections.
A faraday dry bag will also protect your device from the elements of dust, sand and water and are an outstanding layer of security for someone who wants the protection of physical and digital threats. SLNT Faraday bags also allow you to take your digital devices and turn them off and once you insert them into your bag they are completely off grid. I have had the opportunity to use one from SLNT over the last 8 months or so. I have been utilizing one bag that has been then put into my backpack to secure my phone and electronics. This has worked for me both from a protection level as well as a waterproof dry bag level. It has also helped me to keep myself on a digital detox while hunting. I put my gear into the bag in the morning before leaving the vehicle and then only pull it out in an emergency forcing me to be present and focused.
The vast majority of my travel for the last year has not really required the level of sophistication that I would need in a Faraday bag but traveling overseas, I could quickly see the value of acquiring a laptop sleeve that is both TSA compliant as well as providing the features and protections of a Faraday bag to add to the waterproof bag that I use for my phone and small handheld electronics.
If you are looking for a dry bag that is secure in more ways than one, this is something worth taking a serious look into and the SLNT team has put together some tremendous tutorials and information to help you get up to speed on threat intelligence and the ways in which you should consider protecting your electronic devices.
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