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But your bank also doesn't reward you for your situational-awareness skills, or give you a way to make even more money if you could somehow develop inhuman reflexes.

At least mine doesn't.

(Edit: to be fair, if I had been a little quicker on the draw when Schwab accidentally transferred $60+ million into my account several years ago, I might not be making this particular counterargument.)



to be fair...

not really, because you'd legally have to return that money anyways. your argument still holds.

a better counterargument would be that some banks don't allow their app to run on rooted phones, which is equivalent to anti-cheat measures (since windows is rooted by default)

to protect against what though?


to protect against what though?

Keyloggers (touchloggers?), I imagine.




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