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I've talked with a friend working in the IT department of one of Austrias biggest banks (black + yellow colour ;) ) about it. Apparently, banks want to become t
by BrandiATMuhkuh 10y ago
I've talked with a friend working in the IT department of one of Austrias biggest banks (black + yellow colour ;) ) about it. Apparently, banks want to become the identification services of the future. The idea is, that you can only (not sure if that is true) open a bank account with a valid ID, therefore the bank login can identify if a person is real or not.
Example: creating a Twitter/FB account with you bank credentials would make your account automatically an approved account (you are you)
- gargarplex 10y agoThis would solve a lot of problems with online fraud.... I welcome the innovation
- boredpudding 10y agoThis is true. However, they will not let you enter the details on the page itself. In The Netherlands they are launching 'iDIN'. Which is a bit like OAuth 2.0, so it only provides the webshops with the things they need (and a bit more like age. So yay, privacy issues).
- BrandiATMuhkuh 10y agoOne of the problems is when this is done by companies instead of states. A company might remove your access for some, not obvious reasons. Just see current trending HN link http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444 http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/98444 where google suspended an account and with that the person could not use the google login anymore. Even for non-google pages. That is scary. A protocol like the EDUROAM system would be nice. In that case, credentials include a domain (usually a Uni name), and with that domain the home uni(bank) can be used as an authentication authority.