Spyke
Rivalarrival
lemmy.today

Try "Shelter". It's available on F-droid. It's an app that lets you manage your phone's "Work Profile". I use it to house scummy corpo apps that I occasionally need, but don't want running all the time. From inside the work profile, HSBC shouldn't be able to see apps installed outside of it.

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uhmbahreply
lemmy.ca

Updated 2 years ago. Is this abandoned or just simply a slow rate of progress?

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videogamesandbeerreply
lemmy.world

It's a simple app that leverages a built in android feature and nothing more. I use it for the same reason as the guy above you. There's no updates to be made.

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ramble81
lemmy.zip

Let me start by saying how stupid that is…. But, if I had to come up with a reason, it may be because Bitwarden can store passkeys which can then make them portable as opposed to device specific which technically is a security bypass.

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KuroiKazereply
lemmy.world

Yeah I would say almost assuredly they have seen scams abusing this enough to have to implement a countermeasure

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JaddedFauceetreply
lemmy.world

I believe they are just indiscriminately checking for the installed source (an information available from Android). If the installed source is not from Google Play Store, it will attempt to block. In this case, app is installed from f-droid.

this is not just HSBC, a lot of Asian banks implemented this, likely as a reaction to the scam cases.

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jet
hackertalks.com

Not just hsbc lots of safenet settings have a blacklist of apps they won't run with ..

It can be avoided by installing those blacklist apps in different accounts profiles or private space

Basically safenet let's apps say they won't run if anything is side loaded or instead with a third party app store

Maybe this is their long term plan to kill other apps stores... Let banking apps be the bad guy by volunteering for a high "safety net" setting

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