Your banking app, if it was decently written by a sane programmer, should be entirely immune to any MitM attacks that a VPN would allay. Thus you would not be receiving any major benefit from using a VPN with your banking app. On the other hand, there is significant security value in the bank being able to see the actual IP of connecting clients.

[–] null@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not tunnelling to my home network in order to use the banking app. I'm tunnelling to my home network as part of my general way of accessing the internet. My banking app isn't the only thing running on my phone while I use it.

I don't want to have to turn it off just to use the banking app.

if it was decently written by a sane programmer

Better hope it is then, I guess.

On the other hand, there is significant security value in the bank being able to see the actual IP of connecting clients.

Can you expand on that?

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

our banking app, if it was decently written by a sane programmer

That is a beautiful vision for a better world.

[–] Jozav@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Considering the bugs in this app, and considering that this is an Indian bank, I highly doubt it was 'written by a sane programmer'.

[–] bluecat_OwO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

bruh some indians write sane code