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by submeta 1913 days ago
> Companies standardized on email as notification system for "you got a message in the actually secure medium".

This is so ridiculous. I have to log in to a dozen different sites to download documents. And those sites are 2FA secured, so I have no means to automate. Of course these companies never heared of (REST) APIs. - This is such a step backwards.

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Frankly, I prefer my bank and insurance to have minimal access surface.
But why don't they support just sending them to your email, gpg encrypted if sensitive? They'd still be secure and significantly easier to archive

I know it's for liability reasons, but annoying nontheless

That's an extra thing they could get wrong. Seeing how some banks cannot deal with copy-pasting my legal name correctly, I prefer to not give them anything else out of the ordinary.