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  • Gloomendoom
    Gloomendoom Posts: 16,551 Forumite
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    benjus wrote: »
    All smartphone based these days... but yes, if you don't have a smartphone don't go logging on to your internet banking from any old computer.

    Is a smartphone any more secure?
  • worried_jim
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    Is a smartphone any more secure?

    If you are using an app rather than loading a web page and logging in then yes.
  • Gloomendoom
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    worried_jim wrote: »
    If you are using an app rather than loading a web page and logging in then yes.

    Useful to know. Thanks.

    Is this still true when using Wi-fi rather than data?
  • silvercar
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    Useful to know. Thanks.

    Is this still true when using Wi-fi rather than data?

    So I was told.
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  • Gloomendoom
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    edited 3 December 2017 at 6:22PM
    Doshwaster wrote: »
    I've never known anywhere take Visa but not MC (or vice versa) .

    Try a Co-op bank ATM in Cyprus. Refused Clarity, Santander and Monzo. Happy with Barclaycard.
  • Fortyfoot
    Fortyfoot Posts: 1,961 Forumite
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    edited 3 December 2017 at 8:10PM
    I have just been talking to two ladies withdrawing money from Caixa bank in Los Cristianos. They had been charged £5 for a withdrawal from Santander bank.

    No charge from Caixa bank.

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    Fortyfoot
  • benjus
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    Gloomendoom wrote: »
    Is a smartphone any more secure?

    Yes, it's secure because you have control over it, which is what really matters. It doesn't matter if you use an app or a web page. In both cases the data flowing between your phone and the bank is encrypted so it doesn't matter if anyone intercepts the data going over a wifi connection.

    On the other hand, you have no idea what might be installed on an internet cafe computer. It could have a keylogger to record what you type, or a fake internet security certificate to allow a third party to pretend to be your bank's website.
    Let's settle this like gentlemen: armed with heavy sticks
    On a rotating plate, with spikes like Flash Gordon
    And you're Peter Duncan; I gave you fair warning
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