alt Hacker NewsI guess you can still do banking on your PC?
I stopped using banking apps on my phones a few years ago - they got more and more annoying, and I don't buy into the "the device is secure and should be used as a trust token". So I'm now back to banking only on my computer, with a hardware token for TAN generation.
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phantom784 • last Friday at 6:00 PM
That probably means giving up the ability to mobile deposit checks - every bank I've ever had only allows that through their app.
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EvanAnderson • last Friday at 6:39 PM
Hyperbolic take - There won't be PCs, as we know them, for too much longer (both by way of being made into walled garden phone-like "appliances" by software, and by the hardware becoming unavailable).
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Hardware tokens are not allowed in Europe to authorize certain operations such as bank transfers: you need a device that can show the operation you are about to authorize ("enter 123456 to confirm your payment of 99.99 € to Pornhub"). And that essentially means using a phone.