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Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

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Re: Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

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Post by ThomPete »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #265
ThomPete wrote: post #255

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I don't think so. The EU isn't better off than the US when it comes to cellphone standards as such and it certainly haven't made them any better at building successful companies. EU is trying to solve a bunch of things through legislation which the market should be solving on it it's own.

> EU is trying to solve a bunch of things through legislation which the market should be solving on it it's own. Maybe because they know that the market doesn't solve such problems, it only makes them worse. Market players profit from creating barriers for customers and keeping the system balkanized; it takes a strong actor outside of that market to force a common standard. See also: why sending files directly betwee…

It haven't put the EU in any better position than the US.

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Post by RandomInteger4 »

closeparen wrote: post #178
Tehnix wrote: post #147

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I am not aware of a country in Europe where the online banking interface is not able to transfer money, both domestically and internationally vi e.g. SEPA and other methods - it’s called “online banking”... Phishing and other things were a large attack vector until 2FA mostly did away with it.

The capabilities of European online banking are irrelevant to the security needs of American online banking. Yes, you need 2FA, because your online banking is actually for making transactions. In the US, it isn't. On the off chance that the capability is there, it's seldom used. You make transactions by telling the other party your account number.

What kind of backwards bank do you bank with that doesn't allow transactions to be made from their web portal?

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Post by erroneousfunk »

In a computer security class I had at Harvard, the professor made the comment: "Your mother's maiden name is considered a 'secret.' Which is funny, given the building we're in."

We were in the Maxwell Dworkin building, named after the surnames of Bill Gates' and Paul Allens' mothers. Their mothers' maiden names were literally carved in a huge stone sign outside the building.

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