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Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl... by cryptonym on Friday November 06, 2026 @08:41AM (#50392181)
It's not about your security nor your account. They are protecting their app, their apis, their servers. Everything that makes the life more complicated for hackers will be deployed, even if that includes power-users hacking their own stuff.
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Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl... by techjamie on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:14AM (#50393320)
Blocking people from rooting their own devices isn't meaningfully contributing to security, even if they think it is. Not relying on security through obscurity is one of the first things you learn when studying the subject.
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Re:Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, incl... by cryptonym on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:24AM (#50393467)
Not relying on security through obscurity doesn't mean obscuring things is bad for security, it just means this is not sufficient. Relying only on this or getting a false sense of security due to this would be bad.
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