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faust201today at 5:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Ideally they should have also told all German banks distribute or offer non-App based accounts or 2FA? But they did not.

Also people are dependent on Play or App store. DB does not offer the app for direct download.


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littlecranky67today at 9:36 PM

Well for banks there is competition (and largeest german consumer bank - Deutsche Bank/Postbank offers a non-smartphone based authentication device [0]). Not so much for government run railway.

[0]: https://www.postbank.de/privatkunden/services/online-banking...