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Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:26PM (#43976658)
You have to think of a Bank's threat model though.

Account compromise is one threat, but the use of valid accounts for money laundering is another. In my view the reason they "get it wrong" is because they don't want you to be able to automate transactions, as that makes money laundering easier...

Therefore, they don't want to use standard TOTP because that's easy to automate. Requiring SMS based 2FA is harder (but not impossible, use a modem or maybe a SMS service.) And requiring a special app is quite difficult to automate.

Re:Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @03:19PM (#43976576)
Is there a way off Authy yet?
Re:Column – a chartered bank for developers on Thursday April 21, 2022 @12:32PM (#31111619)
I've resorted to writing a service that can initiate transfers and retrieve transactions for a smaller US bank.

I really just want a bank account with an API, that would be so, so nice.

I marked my card as damaged, and when it was replaced I refused to give them the new details...
Re:The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust on Saturday May 02, 2020 @10:12PM (#23056347)
Also, to be clear, by “we” they really mean “a contributor”
Actually, there are units similar to this that update over Infrared (even non-directionally)

Best Buy use them as price tags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aVoeDC-7MA

Re:Lockout-Tagout on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:27AM (#21584712)
Here's one: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4y0m56/why_r...

Failure to isolate (lock-out) puppet from switching things back on during a migration.

Re:How Australia's $49B internet network came to be ridiculed on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:10PM (#15565104)
Where do you get your cheap 4G/LTE?

Best I can find is prohibitively expensive, especially if I wan't to stream 4K content...

Re:Jonathan Blow's new game, The Witness, is out on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:12PM (#10992803)
This looks awesome
Re:How I hacked my own iCloud account for just $200 on Monday September 08, 2014 @03:56AM (#8283791)
FTFY: "How I hacked my own iCloud account for $400 using my password."