Re: Online banking support for Linux?

[Hector Espinoza]

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 <gknittl@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
>
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