| ▲ | dawnerd 8 days ago | |
I don’t get this too. Laptops are just as portable but don’t have this limitation (yet). This argument that it’s to protect banking and music apps is silly, those products work fine on pcs while maintaining security. | ||
| ▲ | Hackbraten 8 days ago | parent [-] | |
> those products work fine on pcs In the EU, banking apps no longer do. They require a trusted companion device for 2FA, e.g. a smartphone app or a dedicated chip-and-pin device. This is enforced by the PSD2 directive [1], which has been in effect since 2019. In contrast to that, you’re always allowed to do banking on an iOS/Android banking app. Banks seem to trust the integrity of the OS enough that they allow the app to be its own second factor. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive | ||