I suppose mobile banking is less secure than regular internet banking ? I'm not sure what is the weakness in mobile banking, compared to regular internet banking, where both of them have a secure device to generate code for transactions ?
Let's say somebody stole your phone, what can he/she do without the secure device that's registered to your bank account ? Jesse Armand ---------------------------------------- (http://jessearmand.com) On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Roland King<r...@rols.org> wrote: > Well you can't register to listen to SMSes, that hook just doesn't exist. So > if you rely on proving who someone is by sending something to a specific > phone (ie making use of the telephone companys vast network ability to > locate one device with that particular SIM card in it at that point in time > anywhere in the world), SMS is kind of about the only way to do it. > > I took a look to see what happens when you're running an app and an SMS > comes in, with a URL on it . it's not totally pretty, you get to option to > 'reply', which closes your app, or 'close' which closes the SMS. So the best > you could do like that is hit reply, close your app, hit the link in the SMS > which opens it up again, you'd need a quick-start app for that. > > The only other way is to have done the SMS thing way in advance and cached a > token on the phone you use at the time direct to the server, but that's not > very good security, the token would go with the phone, swap SIM cards and > someone else is now you. > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
