[FRIAM] Pardon the interuption, for questions about banking apps

[glen]

Well, I'd recommend against doing any banking on your phone, or doing anything important with it. But if you must, do it on an exclusive device that doesn't automatically send everything to Google or Apple, doesn't automatically connect to every coffee shop wifi, etc. Make sure the whole phone is encrypted. Don't carry it everywhere *or* have 2 that are cloned so when a skateboarder whips by and grabs it out of your hand, you can run home and lock everything down with the clone. Use another phone for arbitrary plebe things like selfies and Telegram. Use aliases. If they don't know your real name, they can't steal your ID.

Or, just don't do anything important on your phone. If it's important, there are other, better, ways to do it.

On 9/29/22 17:07, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> I just recently got more of a proper bank account with BofA after a 'misshap'  with a cashcard. Keeping it relevant to Friam I think family has some umm mmm concerns about data security, and...ok so what they really would like to know for using the apps to make deposits by check. is How likely is it for things to go sideways and suddenly deets from the check, everyone that might cares knows.  I suggested to them: we aren't /that / important. someone like Poodlesec, or lolPHPsec isn't going to find me interesting enough to bother. If or when they  turn a places electric security into the consistency of /dev/null or worse. We're so screwed by then anyway.
> Short of that: what's been folks experience? are they reasonable secure?  Personally I'd think i'd be more likely to run into problems from fat fingering something. Than a check going poof, but that'd still suck.


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