Comment on It's time to stop using SMS, here's why!

• Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know your specific circumstance but I highly doubt you only have one option for a bank or credit union. Time to adult some shit and do your research. Complaining on Lemmy will only get you so far.

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  • CedarA64@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are making the mistake of assuming that people make a decision about what institution to bank with solely based on what kind of 2FA they provide. In reality, there are many other factors involved. I ended up banking with these institutions for a reason. And I don’t know what the overall situation outside the US, e.g. in Europe, is but I think in the US there are few banks that offer something better than SMS 2FA. Some will force you or invite you to use their special app (which may or may not only work with SafetyNet) instead, which is absolutely not an improvement except perhaps strictly in the security sense. I think there are a few experimenting with FIDO2 hardware security keys but that is the exception. This is a problem that requires regulation not telling random individuals that they just need to git gud at picking a bank.

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    • Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you security isn’t your top priority when it comes to where you put your money I’m not sure what we are talking about.

      I’m telling people to “git gud” but, people here choose not to do the bare minimum and then complain that the bank, their parents probably choose for them when they were children doesnt meet their needs.

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      • CedarA64@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If data security isn’t your top priority when it comes to where you put your money, we have nothing to discuss.

        This is a very privileged position to take.

        then complain that the bank, their parents probably chose for them when they were children

        A very uncharitable assumption

        Yes of course this problem needs regulation but that won’t happen if all consumers do is complain on useless forums instead of actually putting their money where there mouth is.

        You clearly do not understand how regulation is introduced. People moving to banks that already comply with a future/potential regulation does not bring about regulation.

        tells the bank you are OK with that. Its not fair but, most institutions prioritize convenience over privacy and security for their customers because that’s what they have shown they want.

        This is not how things work at all. How is the bank supposed to know why you switched to another bank or why someone is banking with them.

        I’m not sure why people are so offended that they might have to put in some actual effort

        It is for the most part not about the effort. You are expressing typical neoliberal “everything can be solved through the market” mentality. If people just put in the effort to buy the right product in the marketplace then everything will be alright.

        This will be my final response as we will probably never see eye-to-eye on this and I have better things to do with my time than engaging in pointless arguments. This is not what I joined this privacy community for.

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