# Can Someone Accidentally or Maliciously Tap My NFC Business Card?

This concern touches on both accidental reads and deliberate unwanted reads. Here is the reality.

## Accidental Taps

For an accidental tap to happen, a phone would need to come within about 1 to 2 centimetres of your card. If your card is in your wallet, bag, or card holder, an accidental tap from a passing phone is essentially impossible. NFC requires deliberate, close contact.

## Malicious Reads

Even a successful malicious read yields only the URL stored on the chip, which points to your publicly accessible Linktree or landing page containing only information you have chosen to make public.

## Write-Protection

Tappio cards are write-protected after programming. Even if someone attempted to write new data to your chip, they cannot. The stored URL is locked.

## The Practical Assessment

The security risk of NFC business cards is minimal. The chip stores a public URL. Physical proximity is required to read it. The card cannot be remotely read.