Hi Greg: I do online banking almost everyday here in Colombia and Ecuador with many banks and all except one work with Fedora 28 + Firefox. The other one works with Chromium. I do not need to change the user agent. In Spain it worked as well with Ubuntu + Firefox at that time. Best, Héctor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:15 PM Greg Knittl <gkni...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm in Ontario, Canada. My credit union, Meridian, only supports > Microsoft Windows and Max OS X for online banking. > https://www.meridiancu.ca/About-Meridian/Privacy-and-Security.aspx under > browser requirements. > > I doubt they have any legal or regulatory obligation to support Linux - > but it's getting to the point where it's almost a necessity to bank > online, especially with COVID-19. I think the government needs to step > in to regulate online banking terms and conditions. > > Any thoughts on legalities? > > From the > https://www.meridiancu.ca/About-Meridian/Privacy-and-Security.aspx > especially the section titled Your Online Privacy they describe fairly > vague security procedures that would be difficult to completely follow > even if I installed Windows or MAC OS X. I.e. if there were an issue I > have the feeling the "100% Security Guarantee" wouldn't amount to much. > Also these are not really platform specific requirements and they could > just as well apply to Linux. > > They have offered to support me remotely by paper mail and phone (I now > have a cell phone which I doubt is particularly secure) which I will > probably do for now. > > Any thoughts on technical issues? How would a financial institution > write platform independent online banking terms and conditions? I cringe > at how much attack surface a browser adds especially with javascript. > Maybe I've spent too much time on the command line, but sending > encrypted files back and forth by email or ftp or internet get/post > seems safer to me. > > Has anyone found an institution that officially supports Linux, > particularly in Canada? > > thanks, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss