@gsc You are privileged to have choices to switch to. I feel like I've already chosen the least bad options in my situation. I don't know where you live, but in many countries most banks have terrible security practices. @EarthOrgUK @jtb @ahltorp @davep @signalapp

@ahltorp @davep You're lucky in Japan if your bank even has it and then doesn't charge you 2500 yen a month to use it.

@davep @EarthOrgUK @jtb @ahltorp @signalapp We're talking about the sector that holds our life savings and limits passwords to 8-12 alpha numeric characters and until recently no form of 2FA. Not sure why this surprises you. (If this isn't the case elsewhere, it's still the case in Japan, where I live. Not super impressed by my Canadian banks either, tbh.)

@EarthOrgUK @jtb @ahltorp @davep @signalapp And they've locked my account for KYC reasons until I do it. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

@EarthOrgUK @jtb @ahltorp @davep @signalapp Both my life insurance company and my overseas bank want me to send copies of my passport and proof of address over unencrypted email. When I complain, they say I should password protect the file and send the password in a separate unencrypted email to the same address.

Even if I find a way to send it securely, based on this, I doubt they store it securely.

@jtb @ahltorp @davep @signalapp And they are saying that because people do. Because it's easy for a con artist to convince some people who may just be vulnerable at that moment to give it to them.

@ahltorp @davep @jtb @signalapp People have been trying to scam me since the 90s and I've always seen through it or taken a moment to check. Even so, I got had a couple of months ago by a very obvious piece of social engineering. All it takes is being tired, or stressed, or distracted, or all three, and you just go into automatic when asked to do something. I had to change all my passwords, update all my 2FA, change email addresses used for logins, etc.

It can happen to anyone.

Edit: typo

@rrustema020 @notjustbikes The SUV driver was 100% in the wrong and that is a stupid design for a truck, but it's hard for me to muster up sympathy for someone driving a lambo.

"Stephen Miller arrested for accidentally discharging AR-15 into Pete Hegseth's Nazi tattoo." <- comparable hypothetical incident.