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points by riazrizvi 1 day ago | 0 comments

> they don't understand what they are talking about

Even though the banks' policies are driven by incident responses and real data, whereas your position is presented on theory.

[–] basilikum 1 day ago

Is your answer driven by real data about the decision making of banks?

[–] riazrizvi 1 day ago

Defend my criticism of ignorance of circumstances by pointing out some similar vague notion of how I spent 15 years working in banks even though they are not this bank and this situation? No thanks.

[–] basilikum 1 day ago

So you say there is real world data on this.

Do you have anything to back this up? What I am asking for is specifically does the usage of an OS other than the preinstalled one have a causal, direkt link with the user's bank account being attacked and money being stolen from it?

[–] riazrizvi 1 day ago

You go first.

Direct specific evidence to back up the criticism that these guys are not looking at data and just making up dumb rules to reduce their customer base.

[–] basilikum 1 day ago

You are making an authority argument. I and most others are not buying the validity of that authority having been subjected to insane (in)security (non)standards by banks elsewhere and one other sibling commentor even mentioning their work experience for banks as evidence.

It is on you to back up your claim.

[–] riazrizvi 1 day ago

In my career travels I am yet to find any professional group crow as confidently from on top of a hollow position as software developers. I think it has to do with daily operating from inside a deterministic environment, it gets projected out into human situations.

[–] basilikum 1 day ago

I take you resorting to name calling as not having any actual argument. It is always the same with this. When you ask for how this supposedly helps and what specific threats it protects against you just get vague references, gesturing in the direction of supposed authorities and the more you ask for an actual threat model the less precise and the more avoidant it gets.

[–] unethical_ban 1 day ago

As someone who worked at a bank - some policy decisions are not driven by regulatory requirements or technical expertise.