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by homeomorphic 4678 days ago
> In Norway if you want to log in to your bank you need a friggin Java Applet.

Not with Skandiabanken. Their only special requirement is a phone for doing two-factor authentication by SMS.

If you wanna use the horridly flawed BankID, which they do also offer, you probably need Java as you say.

Rant to foreigners about BankID: The conversation must have gone like this at a meeting of Noreay's major banks:

- Public key crypto is good.

- Yes!

- But users are too stupid/lazy to safeguard their private keys...

- Good point. How 'bout some trusted party taking care of those for the users?

- Yes! And you know who you can trust? Banks!

- Agreed then, we'll sit on the private keys, and when the customer wants so sign for say a mortgage, they just authorize us to do so for them.

- That last step sounds cumbersome...

- Nah, we'll just do it over the Internet.

- But won't that put us back where we started?

- Hush! I can't hear you over the sound of future income!