• Psaldorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 months ago

    But they had no way of knowing about October attack?

    They had bombs in radios and pagers too.

    Sus.

  • dan69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    When some taunts about this this, it makes my want to throw away and boycott the shit out of smart phones…

    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      203·
      3 months ago

      They engineered smartphones (two very closed ecosystem/monopolies) into our lives so we are dependent on them (can’t even have a normal bank account without it).
      Suppliers are controlling the demand.

      They are in the process of doing this with AIs.
      That’s why they are suddenly abundant & free(-ish).

      The monopolies & wealth concentration will be even worse.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          MFA is moving to apps.
          Safety features to authorise transactions.
          Completely online banks need apps too.

          I’m not saying you can’t still find other options, but it’s only a matter of time. I was just giving an example. Instead of like bitching about restaurants with only online menus.

        • coltn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          41·
          3 months ago

          I use a flip phone as a daily driver, and do not have any banking apps–and things are just getting harder and harder. I primarily do my banking on my laptop, but I do have an old pixel phone with GrapheneOS that plug in and charge when I “need” a smart phone.

          Most banking apps need the banking app installed to a smart phone because MFA is handled through the banks proprietary app. Some banking apps aren’t even possible to install on GrapheneOS due to the app requiring google play integrity API–making these banks impossible for me to use.

          I use three banks, one works perfectly and supports traditional 2fa totp–which is seamless for me. My second bank supports MFA through their app, and will fallback to SMS 2fa–less good, still relatively convenient (i hate using my phone, having to find it etc), but also much less secure. The third bank (which I may drop) only supports MFA through the app, but still supports graphene. This is more secure than the second bank, but a huge pain to have to charge my smart phone, and go through the process.

          Banks are not incentivized to have web/computer access be painless. It feels like soon we may not be able to bank without paying for spyware.

      • entwine@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Who is “they”? This comment reads like a tinfoil hat caricature of paranoia.

        The billionaires are opportunists who got us to where we are because we (stupidly) let them get away with crime after crime.

        They aren’t evil geniuses who masterminded this government coup back in 2007. That type of rhetoric is silly and not likely to convince anyone of anything other than thinking you’re a nutjob.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clubEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          What tinfoil?
          What are you talking about?
          Are you paranoid about paranoid posts? :)

          ‘They’ are the suppliers, I thought that was clear.
          The ones that fought for various forms of market shares at low prices so they can now increase those prices bcs there is little practical alternatives in the short term.
          So Google, Apple, Samsung, etc.

          Why do you think we valued Google in the billions before they had revenue & when they promised to not ever put ads on their page?
          Or another example of “them” affecting deman instead of just supply: how was Uber valued in billions when they were making a loss from the markets they were already present on - they offered lower pieces to get the regular taxi services in trouble/to quit & only then their prices soared to get them to profit.

          It would be pretty brainwashed to think monopolies just happen randomly without specific effort put into it.