Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair

Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by netsharc on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:21PM (#21806775)

I ordered a cheap Android phone the other day because installing a non-OEM OS like Lineage mean... banking software doesn't work. I have an older phone but the last stock ROM on it is Android 5, although it is currently running Lineage with Android 9. So I bought that phone to keep at stock and have a phone I can do my banking with.

Come to think of it, I should just switch banks!

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by blacksmith_tb on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:50PM (#21808350)

Magisk[1] works with Lineage and might be able to fool your annoying banking app.

1: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk...

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by takeda on Monday December 16, 2019 @07:09PM (#21809062)

Don't use Magisk, but it allowed me to fool all apps that I'm aware of.

I really don't understand this mentality (doing it with a bank app, I also had it with OTP app), because I have full control over my phone that somehow makes it compromised?

What's next? I no longer will have access to my bank account because I'm less trustworthy?

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by 72deluxe on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:24AM (#21813168)

Good job they don't let you access your bank account via a website if you're an admin user on a PC!

Oh wait, they do...

Honestly, I don't understand the mentality either. Admittedly the phone is more portable than a laptop, but the chances of stealing a laptop and gaining access to any cached banking credentials on it is identical to a phone, surely?

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by linuxftw on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:19PM (#21807314)

You can side-load firefox and just use the bank's mobile site.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by efreak on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:55AM (#21811309)

Side loading is unnecessary. Firefox is available on both the play store and Fdroid (not sure if it's in the default Fdroid repo, but I know there's at least one third party repo with official builds)

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by netsharc on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:37AM (#21811487)

The app has features using the camera though, and can act as a 2FA for desktop logins, otherwise I'd need my card and a card reader with a PIN pad to input the challenge given during the login process.

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Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair by takeda on Monday December 16, 2019 @07:10PM (#21809078)

The Magisk recommendation should work, but you should put pressure on your bank to stop doing it.

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