Comment by lawn
9 months ago
How many alternative operating systems work well on Apple devices?
Android phones usually have multiple options (Lineage, Calyx, eos, Graphene, depending on your particular phone) and you can always replace Windows with Linux.
How well do those alternatives play with your banking app?
Pretty well https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
Also, having your banking app on your phone isn't the most desirable thing in reality, if you're security-minded.
My bank requires it, for better or for worse.
Any bank transfers are MFAd via the app, for example. It's the only bank that allows non-citizens in Germany that has English correspondence and wouldn't have taken months in Bureaucracy to open an account when I first moved.
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> having your banking app on your phone isn't the most desirable thing in reality, if you're security-minded.
Honest question: Why not?
I download less random program / files on my phone, then I do on my computer.
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Very well for my banking apps. With root and developers options enabled on my phone as well. If your banking apps does not work complain to your bank.
Very well, only the shittiest banking apps don’t work on them. Root is a bit more problematic, but would also be reason enough for me to change banks, as they seem to care more about theater than security.
Why would you want a banking app? If your bank won't work over browser and insists on installing some crap on your device, shop for another bank.
In Finland, for example, you have to authenticate online through your banking application for any online government service or things like mobile plan. This 2FA is basically mandatory and the alternative is using keys printed on a paper that you have to pay for cause every key is one time use only and I am not sure they will continue that service for long.
It’s probably similar in Sweden and other neighbouring countries
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^This. For me, it's not my phone that's defective, it's the app. My phone runs my other ~10 apps that provide for my digital life perfectly fine, with the level of security I'm comfortable with (root access, firewall to block anything in/out that I don't specifically allow). If this is a problem for your app, your app is broken. I'll use something else.
I would not be able to log into _any_ local banking website without the government 2fa app. Not sure what the alternative is. Maybe they can give you an old school hardware device.
Or read the digital letters from government / municipalities.
Also I like my banking app.
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I've used CalyxOS and GrapheneOS and I haven't had any issues with the Swedish banks.