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Philip Lees 
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Thomas T. Frost wrote:
Government and bank authentication systems increasingly require a smartphone, sometimes with an NFC reader (e.g. Denmark and the UK), to let you into their digital systems, so life without a smartphone is becoming increasingly difficult, whether we like it or not.
Well, I will not be bullied into buying an expensive piece of equipment that I don't want and have no other use for.
Two-factor authentication with an SMS code works on dumb phones but is not nearly as secure as app-based authentication. It has been hacked in various ways. I would expect that old authentication method to be phased out slowly.
I expect it's only matter of time until somebody hacks the apps. If they haven't done so already.
About your email support experience, support agents are often under pressure to solve a certain number of tickets per hour, so they don't read and understand users' emails properly and then copy and paste some boilerplate text. Some email support systems now use AI to generate a suggested answer, but the support agent should still check it.
I finally received an answer that reads as if it was written by a human being and is actually quite helpful. I now realise I had misunderstood the instructions on their website - which I attribute to their being poorly written, rather than any deficiency in reading comprehension on my part.
So I'll try again when I have time.
Hot on the heels of this human response came another computer-generated email asking how satisfied I was with their support.
Sigh!
I find their advice to either use somebody else's computer/phone or to do the verification in a public place quite alarming enough.
If you install the app, login, complete the authentication, close the app and uninstall it yourself, I don't see any problem. Danish authorities suggested a similar method for users having to enrol in the new public authentication system.
One of the most basic pieces of security advice these organisations offer is that, whatever authentication system you use, don't do it when somebody else is looking over your shoulder.
I do not see how that is compatible with verifying your ID in a public library, with or without the assistance of the librarian.
[Edited to delete superfluous comma]
[Edited at 2024-11-03 06:31 GMT]
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Philip Lees wrote:
One of the most basic pieces of security advice these organisations offer is that, whatever authentication system you use, don't do it when somebody else is looking over your shoulder.
I do not see how that is compatible with verifying your ID in a public library, with or without the assistance of the librarian.
By the same logic, you could never use an ATM because somebody would always be looking over your shoulder, since it's in public.
I can only presume you would be smart enough not to show your Wise credentials to any person helping. Maybe you can explain where the risk is in that case, once the app has been deleted. I also presume Wise would not have suggested this option if it was a security risk.
But it seems all you needed was to ask for clarification, a course of action thankfully within the grasp of a translator, so all is calm and all is bright, and then we can all be zen.
Much ado about nothing.
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| Philip Lees
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Local time: 21:37
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Thomas T. Frost wrote:
By the same logic, you could never use an ATM because somebody would always be looking over your shoulder, since it's in public.
I am large. If I'm standing in front of an ATM, nobody is looking over my shoulder.
In any case, I always obscure the keypad while I enter my PIN.
I can only presume you would be smart enough not to show your Wise credentials to any person helping. Maybe you can explain where the risk is in that case, once the app has been deleted.
A public library, where you sit down at a computer screen under (probably) the surveillance of CCTV, is an entirely different situation from an ATM.
I also presume Wise would not have suggested this option if it was a security risk.
Dream on, Thomas.
But it seems all you needed was to ask for clarification, a course of action thankfully within the grasp of a translator, so all is calm and all is bright, and then we can all be zen.
Much ado about nothing.
Eventually, they told me all I needed to do was take a photo of my face next to my passport ID page and upload it to their site. No messing about with smartphones or webcams, or whatever.
So I did that, and within 24 hours I received a "confirmation" message from Wise.
We've confirmed a personal document you sent us.
Thanks for providing the information we requested.
Great! I thought.
But when I went to the site and tried to make a transfer, they started the whole bl**dy procedure all over again.
I'm not wasting any more time on them. I have now closed my Wise account.
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