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Banks are among those making telemetry calls they have no idea they’re making. Your bank app strategy is the same one has to use to install or update most IoT
by Terretta 5y ago
Banks are among those making telemetry calls they have no idea they’re making. Your bank app strategy is the same one has to use to install or update most IoT today, including appliances that shouldn’t be IoT at all. Those too incorporate these SDKs.
Perhaps having a “Linux phone with acceptable UX” in your hands will change product manager and developer behaviors with regards to client-side SDKs. Perhaps Linux will step up and block developers of these SDKs from monitoring Linux users, the way Apple updated their OS (against developer wishes) to block always-on location tracking.
- nbzso 5y agoActually I am planning to shut down emergency scenario of banking apps (installed only because of early pandemic situation) and using only the web access point trough real computer. There is no absolute in this, but I am certain that in my day to day life I have enough privacy compared to regular users of a smartphone or computer. This old iPhone is only active for the banking transaction and only in use cases when I don't have a laptop around. So the compromise is acceptable.
- lrem 5y agoBanking apps provide a nearly unbeatable 3FA for your real computer. There are other services where a similar setup is beneficial. I, an exclusive Android user, am actually considering buying an iPhone to serve only as a 3FA.