On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Tim Guan-tin Chien
<timdr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Indeed, banks in Taiwan are slowly rolling out OTA based
> authentications primary mobile app banking users, despite 100% of the
> ATM cards are already smart cards (required by legal mandate against
> forgery since 2006) and you can already access back accounts from
> "WebATM" websites & smart card readers with -- again, ActiveX or Java
> plug-in.
>
> I can't argue if either is securer or "better" compare to another, but
> it's important to acknowledge we cannot change the banking industry or
> government IT service industry over night by refusing providing
> solutions.

Well, if they're using ActiveX or Java (both seem rather terrible from
a security perspective, but okay), it seems they're not using <keygen>
either, so that solution was probably not sufficient either way.

I agree there needs to be a solution of sorts, but it might take a
while until we figure something out that works for the web and world
at large.


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