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Re:Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Bankin... by barbarbar on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#28230057)
I don't know what Plaid is. But the user/password thing sounds insane. How can that be even an idea for a solution?
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Re:Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Bankin... by deathanatos on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:57PM (#28230180)
What else is there, when the bank doesn't provide an API & the ability to do something proper, like OAuth2?
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Re:Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Bankin... by robertlagrant on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:42AM (#28230391)
There is this alternative: don't create a service that does something like this.
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