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Are you not in the slightest concerned that if someone steals and or hacks your phone, they can drain your savings? There’s already tons of iMessage zero days out in the wild, so unless you’re running lockdown mode and have a long, alphanumeric password, this seems like a big risk.


Yeah I'm honestly not worried about this at all.

- I have far more faith in Apple's security model than a traditional bank's model.

- I assume Goldman Sachs has a decent policy for fraud/hacks (though someone can fact-check this).

- I'm not a millionaire, if I was I'd be using many different bank accounts, is someone going to exploit a likely-already-patched zero-day in one of the most locked-down operating systems to get my five-figure account?


It would probably be cheaper to hack my bank.


Wouldn’t this automatically compromise all other apps on the phone?

Because if so, then any other online banking apps on the device aren’t safe. So just about equal security to any other mobile banking service.




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