On Android distros [LWN.net]

On Android distros

Posted Jan 4, 2025 5:12 UTC (Sat) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648)
In reply to: On Android distros by zdzichu
Parent article: Some things to expect in 2025

Here in good ol' 'merica, I know of at least one major brokerage firm (perhaps THE largest) that doesn't even require 2FA ... anywhere :)

For that reason, I strongly suspect the "rooted Android = no banking app" problem is likely specific to over-regulated Europeans.

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On Android distros

Posted Jan 4, 2025 13:32 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183) [Link] (2 responses)

> For that reason, I strongly suspect the "rooted Android = no banking app" problem is likely specific to over-regulated Europeans.

By "over-regulated" I guess you mean the banks can't tell the customer to suck it up if money vanishes from their account without the customer being involved?

Because banking regulations don't say anything about Android phones, rooted or otherwise. Or even apps.

On Android distros

Posted Jan 5, 2025 9:13 UTC (Sun) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

my bank in italy retired the 2fa hardware tokens and moved to sending the otp via sms. They said it was because of european regulations. I went to read the regulation and it said to use hw tokens, prefer to avoid otp apps and absolutely never send the otp in clear text.

Banca san paolo if you are wondering. A very large bank.

On Android distros

Posted Jan 5, 2025 9:37 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Sounds right. Lorry drivers are allowed to drive a maximum of 13 consecutive days without a 2-day (45hrs to be pedantic) break.

One of my colleagues - responsible for enforcing the regs !!! - insisted that meant "one break every second week", and then designed our enforcement system to only look back 8 days. I still think he doesn't understand what's wrong - he hates the system I wrote to replace it ...

Cheers,
Wol