@Curious
Seems to me that ones mobile phone infrastructure and services ought to be as safe as banking services online.
Rubbish. The only reason banking services can be safely offered online is because they layer protections on top of a public Internet that is itself inherently insecure. The fact that smart phones have replaced personal computers for a lot of people in the last decade changes nothing in that respect. Prior to that, phones were not deeply tied to individual people, making the entire infrastructure built to be as safe and clean as a needle shared by junkies.
I'm in the camp that says this push towards "One Device to Rule Them All" is inherently flawed. Convenient though it may be, from a security perspective it makes zero sense to be managing all your finances with something you carry everywhere in your pocket. The fact that it is also treated as its own 2FA is just ludicrous, whether or not SIMs can be hijacked.
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