Comment by girvo
2 days ago
> It's really not much different than what a banking app would require.
I can use my banking services through the web. Codifying the Google/Apple monopoly in law is gross.
2 days ago
> It's really not much different than what a banking app would require.
I can use my banking services through the web. Codifying the Google/Apple monopoly in law is gross.
> I can use my banking services through the web.
Not for much longer. Stealing your data on mobile device is way too lucrative for the banks to pass on. All while pretending it's done for security.
Sadly true, while scammers run rampant regardless. It’s depressing to watch everything get worse.
In the context of world politics and the hunt for sovereign hosting etc it also seems incredibly weird to put all of EUs identity handling in the hands of two American companies.
For clarity, the US could over night make all European digital wallets nonfunctional by requiring app stores to remove them and have them uninstalled remotely (iirc there is such a feature but it’s very rarely used). Likely? No, still a very strange thing to put into law though.
Many banks have gone the way of requiring 2FA on an unrooted phone, but giving you a way out by also offering you 2FA via smartcard (using a smartcard reader and a bank-issued card). I suspect a similar thing could be done here, with the smartcard providing the trusted hardware/secure element?