"Banking apps can now read which apps you have installed and also from where.
You installed something they don't like?
Sorry, can't access your money until you stop your wrongthinking.
We are entering the dark ages of technology."
Source: Twitter
Discussion
Wow....if that is not AI, it is absolutely the future. Banks will be your micro manager.
Yeah, brace for more of this. Banking online has become so prolific they have you trapped and cornered, so much so they can control the apps and devices you use. Sound familiar.. Apple, YT, any platform. Banks are becoming platforms that hold your money. It’s not your money, you just get use of it when they permit. I hate where this is going. Tie that into digital IDs to score you on what’s acceptable and we’re screwed.
They don't like bitwarden? That's insane.
The more I think about it, the more I think that the banks assumes its a trojan app and there’s spyware on the device. Bitwarden downloaded from an unofficial source is probably not a great idea.
—The notification is stupid and unclear as to why its any of their business in the first place.
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An change you have a link to the twitter post?
Wtf is wrong with bitwarden?
Thats my current favorite pw manager.
Some users on HN "clarify" that it's Google's filter enabled by app developers on the store. Bitwarden is flagged by the level HSBC devs specified in their filter settings. So that's a question for Google.
The original post appears to be on mastodon somewhere. Apparently it was possibly the site's owner "neil"? The link does not appear to work.
I found this hacker news thread on it while searching though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431453
I think https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil may have posted that a while ago
That's the price geeks need to pay for the millions of end users who will click literally ANY rubbish on Facebook and get their phones infested with spyware, and then complain they've been scammed and their money stolen - not because they're careless but because "Google and HSBC allowed us to be robbed".
Banks = 💩
This makes me thing of these Academy of Ideas videos about the terrible mother archetype...
Their vision of security is an abusive restrain & overprotect, when an healthy vision of security is more about defending spaces of freedom by actively booting away the threats.
Oh sorry, forgot the link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_Q27WtMMM
Same with UBS Switzerland. No chance to get it running on Custom Roms. 😐
And what do you think your mandatory #digitalid app is going to do? If you think this tyranny, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You can stomp your foot and say you won't comply, but you will. You can cry about it after it happens, but you will cry silently to yourself.
Or we can build a way out now. We can win this, but you gotta get in the game.
If you need to use fiat rails you should really have a separate normie phone where all the bad apps live, and leave that phone at home.
The api to see what's installed and to get notified on install, uninstall and update events is old and got more restrictive in newer android versions but this is totally possible.
Should a banking app refuse to work if an unknown version of a password manager is installed? Maybe not far fetched.
Monero is the solution
UK citizens should take back their government