• oldfart@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    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