Pieter
@superblox
- 24 Followers
- 58 Following
- 17 Posts
By day, he's just a computer geek. But by night, he also is.
@mahryekuh Los van het acute soevereiniteitsprobleem, hoe zou je op een paar maanden die kennis insourcen bij Logius?
@Infrogmation We hate ads! We hate paywalls! Hey, why have so many journalists lost their jobs? Why is there only cheap AI slop left?
@spiderbill @benjaoming Sorry to hear that. Luckily no such problems here with national banks that I'm aware of.
@jorijn @vadim You can still change the defaults though. It's mostly just a flavor of Firefox. Would be neat if I could whitelist certain sites to allow functional cookies there and block the rest. In the absence of such a feature, standard cookie behavior and tracking blockers are good enough for me.
@benjaoming Chrome has been silently installing features I don't want for a long time, so this isn't news. If you value control, Waterfox/LibreWolf/Vivaldi is there for you.
@janvlug How does the browser code work? If someone manages to extract my session cookie using a rogue browser extension, could they steal € 5000 per transaction? Could they steal 50x € 5000?
@janvlug In Belgium banks have strong security measures to prevent fraudsters from stealing money from my bank account. I like it that way.
The traditional method to authenticate online transactions is Digipass, an airgapped bank card reader that you keep in a drawer at home. Good for desktop usage, not on the go.
The newer method is Itsme, a mobile application that only works on Android and iOS.
So that's why I'm stuck on Android for mobile payments.
@janvlug I applaud your idealism. But PostmarketOS will not reach anyone other than very techy users until it is at least as convenient to use as Android/iOS, and banks will never invest in a niche mobile platform unless forced to.
Perhaps the EU has a role to play here. If they make sure Wero and eIDAS operators are forced to support mobile Linux, the big tech duopoly on mobile can be broken.