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Would you be mad if your bank offered to allow people to verify their identity with FB, or if they forced it. I dont see why the former bothers you, if you cho

by basch 8y ago

Would you be mad if your bank offered to allow people to verify their identity with FB, or if they forced it. I dont see why the former bothers you, if you choose not to use that feature. I would not use FB to log into a bank because of the Against section. Its not the technical implementation, but their human services that make the product too risky to be trusted as my keys to a door. Im not worried about them logging in and poking around my bank, im worried about them locking me out.

close04 8y ago
I wouldn't be mad, I would just choose to take my business elsewhere. First of all I do not trust Facebook in any way and would no longer trust my bank if they trusted Facebook. FB does not have any kind of obligation towards me (at least none that they're willing to uphold, even if it means bending or breaking the law). I consider banking to be a critical service to me so I personally wouldn't want them to have anything to do with my bank. Second of all FB and the bank could at any time share data that would negatively impact me and we already know there are no negative consequences to that as far as the companies are concerned. And lastly, my bank using this even as an opt-in sets the trend and suggests their intentions in the future. Continuing to use it means endorsing the behavior. Like buying software from a company that also sells to oppressive governments. If I have a choice I avoid it.
- basch 8y ago
  I guess I trust facebook more than a small credit union to have secure software, better code review, smarter employees who dont fall for phishing, and less likely to lose their password database. The worst thing to happen to facebook from a security standpoint is either that page preview token or someone logging into some of their back end accounts a while back, and in both cases the people who got in didnt get very far. Myspace, Adobe, and Dropbox all lost databases.

by basch 8y ago

close04 8y ago

I wouldn't be mad, I would just choose to take my business elsewhere. First of all I do not trust Facebook in any way and would no longer trust my bank if they trusted Facebook. FB does not have any kind of obligation towards me (at least none that they're willing to uphold, even if it means bending or breaking the law). I consider banking to be a critical service to me so I personally wouldn't want them to have anything to do with my bank. Second of all FB and the bank could at any time share data that would negatively impact me and we already know there are no negative consequences to that as far as the companies are concerned. And lastly, my bank using this even as an opt-in sets the trend and suggests their intentions in the future. Continuing to use it means endorsing the behavior. Like buying software from a company that also sells to oppressive governments. If I have a choice I avoid it.

basch 8y ago
I guess I trust facebook more than a small credit union to have secure software, better code review, smarter employees who dont fall for phishing, and less likely to lose their password database. The worst thing to happen to facebook from a security standpoint is either that page preview token or someone logging into some of their back end accounts a while back, and in both cases the people who got in didnt get very far. Myspace, Adobe, and Dropbox all lost databases.