I’m not defending that madness, but that device doesn’t show who is the recipient. The argument was that this is protection against phishing sites pretending to be a bank, proxying your connection but sending it to a different recipient.
Makes one wonder how much the user has to fuck up to end in such a scenario, and of it’s really worth transmitting everyone’s financial data in almost plain text over the air for this
I’m not defending that madness, but that device doesn’t show who is the recipient. The argument was that this is protection against phishing sites pretending to be a bank, proxying your connection but sending it to a different recipient.
Makes one wonder how much the user has to fuck up to end in such a scenario, and of it’s really worth transmitting everyone’s financial data in almost plain text over the air for this