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Re:Visa Buys Plaid by raesene9 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @09:43AM (#22054521)
Purely on a customer device would be extremely difficult as the OAuth keys for obtaining the consent would need to be stored on the device, which isn't a solution that scales past one user, from a security standpoint.

The problem of customer choice is that customers are very badly informed about the relative security of services, so there's a market for lemons. If the bank has no liability, that's possibly fine (although it could be argued the bank has some responsibility to advise the customer), but if the bank has any liability for issues resulting, then they get a say in the outcome.

Re:Visa Buys Plaid by Nextgrid on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @11:45AM (#22055766)
Why wouldn't it be good from a security standpoint? How do social media clients do it then? As far as I know they do oAuth too and so hold the consumer key & consumer secrets inside the binary.

Leakage of the consumer secret/consumer key alone doesn't compromise security as you still need the access token and refresh token which are per-user.