Westpac insisting that Banking be done with Android or IOS
I always do my banking with a Linux Desktop and keep the system up to Date and do it through a web browser. It seems less secure with my android devices as they don't provide frequent updates as Ubuntu does. Should I change Banks? -- Ron Dean
I always do my banking with a Linux Desktop and keep the system up to Date and do it through a web browser. It seems less secure with my android devices as they don't provide frequent updates as Ubuntu does. Should I change Banks?
You could try fooling the bank's webserver by changing your browser's "user-agent". The Firefox addon "User-Agent Switcher" allows you to do that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher-firefox/ Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
I'm still able to logon to Westpac Banking from Gentoo with Firefox, with no changes and no issues. On 11/29/2016 01:31 PM, Ron Dean wrote:
I always do my banking with a Linux Desktop and keep the system up to Date and do it through a web browser. It seems less secure with my android devices as they don't provide frequent updates as Ubuntu does. Should I change Banks?
-- Ron Dean
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On 2016-11-29 13:52, Bryan Baldwin wrote:
I'm still able to logon to Westpac Banking from Gentoo with Firefox, with no changes and no issues.
Whether you should use a non-endorsed system depends on the liability you wish to accept. Manipulating funds via an electronic interface relies on a high degree of confidence that both parties (the bank and you) have in each other. By accessing funds electronically relies on the bank having good systems in place to prevent bogus users accessing your funds. Similarly, the bank relies on you that your instructions to it are what you actually want to do. If something goes awry and you are using a non-approved system, they may have a claim on you that they simply followed your instructions (that is - your compromised system simple starting paying that Russian bank account everything you had). Chris O'Halloran
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:06:42 +1300, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Whether you should use a non-endorsed system depends on the liability you wish to accept.
If something goes awry and you are using a non-approved system, they may have a claim on you that they simply followed your instructions ...
But they would claim that anyway, even if you use an “endorsed” system. Since the risk is primarily yours, it has to be your judgement call, not theirs.
Tell them you are going back to writing checks and using cash because they cannot guarantee the security of their provided internet connections. That usually gets their attention. On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 14:16 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 14:06:42 +1300, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Whether you should use a non-endorsed system depends on the liability you wish to accept.
If something goes awry and you are using a non-approved system, they may have a claim on you that they simply followed your instructions ...
But they would claim that anyway, even if you use an “endorsed” system.
Since the risk is primarily yours, it has to be your judgement call, not theirs. _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:31:00 +1300, Ron Dean wrote:
It seems less secure with my android devices as they don't provide frequent updates as Ubuntu does.
I would agree with that. It does sound like a dumb policy.
Should I change Banks?
I have this feeling that every large corporation will do something stupid at some point...
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