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Re:PinePhone Review by pjc50 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:50AM (#21834425)
My bank app has significantly better usability than the website because it can mostly cache credentials and support a short login procedure. Or use the fingerprint scanner.
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Re:PinePhone Review by lonelappde on Thursday December 19, 2019 @09:25AM (#21835131)
Your web browser can fully cache credentials.
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Re:PinePhone Review by pjc50 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:19AM (#21835577)
.. but the bank sets them to expire after five minutes of inactivity, because it (correctly) doesn't consider it to be all that secure.
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Re:PinePhone Review by dTal on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:45AM (#21842841)
Why is it secure when an app does it?
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