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I hate this fucking app, and I hate their website even more. I wasn't allowed to us hyphens in my password.
More than anything I hate that banks make me I replace my 20-character password with a 4-digit pin for the mobile app.
I would go out of my way to make an account with a bank that takes security more seriously. Sigh.
VPN doesn't improve security. Your shit was already encrypted over https. It's privacy.
There's no reason a VPN would increase your security, and many reasons why the bank would discourage the use of VPNs to access their systems
There's no reason a VPN would increase your security
So there's no benefit to using one to tunnel to your home network while on a public network at a cafe?
It would be nice if we were taking comments in context. In this case, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A BANKING APP.
Which you presumably use while connected to the Internet, right?
Why are you tunnelling to your home network to use a banking app?
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.
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?
our banking app, if it was decently written by a sane programmer
That is a beautiful vision for a better world.
Considering the bugs in this app, and considering that this is an Indian bank, I highly doubt it was 'written by a sane programmer'.
bruh some indians write sane code