Comment by rcMgD2BwE72F
4 days ago
I contacted my bank, insisting that GrapheneOS is one of the most secure OS on the market and therefore should be supported if they actually care about users' security (it's actually far more secure than all the old, far less secure but Google-approved devices out there). They acknowledged an fixed their app, one of the most popular in France.
Still missing Android Pay but that's due to Android Pay being closed. I wish banks would do something and support NFC payment systems that don't require the device to be controlled by Google (how can we be okay with this?!)
German bank Comdirect / Commerzbank did this as well, whitelisting GrapheneOS signing keys for their 2FA app. https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/is...
> I wish banks would do something and support NFC payment systems that don't require the device to be controlled by Google
There are countries where it's possible to pay everywhere with the banking app scanning a QR code. No need for NFC :-).
The point of NFC-on-a-phone is that you don't need the damn banking apps and internet and retailer support for all that to validate a simple transaction. My credit card has NFC, no internet and no app, and it's universal.
> you don't need the damn banking apps
You need the Google/Apple app though, don't you? Or can you write your own personal app that will handle that?
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I use qr based payments regularly where I live, and in my home country I use nfc payments (watch/phone/card) essentially always, when we visit.
NFC is by far more convenient and reliable.
I can't say about "convenient" because I don't use it, but I have been using QR codes for years and I haven't had a single issue. I don't know anyone who has.
QR codes are reliable.
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I’m interested which french bank is this?
Play Integrity and APIs like it aren't about security, they are about anti-fraud/anti-scam.