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It's really nice see that some banks and sites have good policies. But most of sites and banks got absolutely horribly bad security. Afaik, that's one of the best ones I have seen this far.

It's especially important that part of target account is used to generate authentication verification key. Because using static or non-content sensitive confirmation codes is useless.



Exactly - because all of those solutions do not take into the account the possible active keylogger which might interfere with the "authentication code". In fact I think here in Belgium there was an incident where chunks of money were stolen from people.

I see what one of the commenters mentioned about the "extra gadget" - but I usually make internet payments at home - so no need to drag this gadget really. Plus, in theory I can use my friends' one - the gadgets are absolutely identical; the "something I have" part is on the card itself, which is in my wallet.




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