• whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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    I’ll use banks as an example

    If they cared about your security there would not be a mobile app or website.

    Hell, credit cards would still require a signature.

    It’s about cost first and foremost and then convenience.

    Has nothing about you as a consumer. They don’t give 2 shits about you as a consumer.

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      Do you think signatures were at all secure? If they cared about security they’d do chip+pin like most civilized countries.

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        With proper infrastructure yes signatures are extremely secure. But that proper infrastructure doesn’t exist.

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          I struggle to think of what that extremely secure infrastructure would look like. Are you imagining signing on an electric terminal and having a computer compare signatures at the time of sale? That seems like the most secure and still wildly insecure compared to a pin.