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Two-factor banking
Kelly Martin, 2005-10-18

People who lived through the Second World War, like my grandparents, had a very different view of money than those of us who grew up in the Information Age. Many of us still remember being told how foolish it is to keep one's life savings under a bed mattress, because the banks were known as trusted entities that will always do a better job of looking after your money. Even my grandparents, albeit reluctantly, came to realize that putting trust in financial institutions was the only way to go.

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the not real time is the key thing here, if the site is set up to automatically login to the real site as soon as the user authenticates with the fake site, then yeah the 2 factor auth isn't going to help, howerver for the majority of cases it will help as the key will have changed by the time the phisher gets to the captured details. There is no such thing as perfect security all you can do is mitigate certain risks, at the moment there is too little mitigation and anything that is going to reduce the risk is IMO worth while :)

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